My father’s mustache is the largest in town,
It’s bigger than all of the others.
It grows all along the width of his face
And continues right on to his brother’s.
From: I Saw an Invisible Lion Today; Quatrain Poems
Brian P. Cleary
persuade
pər-ˈswād
verb
To convince or win over someone to believe something or do something.
Although they tried, Mr. Hernan’s class could not persuade him to let them have a snowball fight in the parking lot.