Word Play

I have a hundred, thousand friends,

I spend my time with some each day,

they visit me in different blends,

and they will help me in my play.

At times they shuffle sullenly

and grudgingly move into  line,

they will not answer easily

and are reluctant to combine.

In times when I get rather fraught

my friends will hide and will demur

so I am left with poor support

from those old stalwarts, Um and Err.

But sometimes they will understand

my thoughts and gladly will agree

to line up in the way I planned

and then it's simply poetry.