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The Web Poetry Corner - Wesley A. Storer - Song of the Dirty Duck

Song of the Dirty Duck

by

Wesley A. Storer

Songs of the red winged blackbird

from the solitudes of chantilus

SONG OF THE DIRTY DUCK

How could I have been
All those different people?
The snot nosed punk of 12
Scaring old ladies with firecrackers
Tipping over Johns at Halloween
The 18 year old soldier at J.F.K.'s funeral
Who once opened the door for Jackie
With her secret service escort of 3
At the National Gallery of Art in 1963
At 25 involved in a terrible car wreck
Trying to elope with an old lady of 65
Whose own daddy tried to gun him down
In a drunken bunkhouse brawl the same time
Who they say tried to commit suicide at 30
By jumping out of a plane at 3,000 feet
The orthopedic surgeon cussed like Satan
For four hours and forty-five minutes
Putting an 11 inch nail in my left femur
Was I the guy who hitched to Boston broke
Who got shot for being a stool pidgeon
In Dorchester, Ma in Spring of 1988
Who almost died from huge gall stones?
That guy who almost froze to death
Hitch-hiking in Montana in 1969
But why should I stretch credulity
With this and yes even more
When I can scarcely believe it myself
Yes all of those people were me
I guess my mother must of prayed for me

NEXT?
Why don't you look at Sir Lancelot Knight
by: Joyce Hemsley
from: Sunderland, England, UK

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