Bridge Chairs

If you have bridge chairs, playing bridge

Is not their only use.

Try mah jongg or canasta -

Any game needs no excuse.

Or set them up for extra guests

So everyone can sit,

Especially if there’s

A fold-up table where they’ll fit.

The same goes for a coffee cup,

For cocoa or some tea

Can fill it up as well as java -

Wouldn’t you agree?

Of course, that coffee cup may rest

Upon a coffee table,

Which may hold books or magazines,

Despite its coffee label.

And yet, if you’ve a bookcase,

You may get some eye-roll looks

If the shelves have only knickknacks,

When it’s meant for holding books.