Good Company and Not
Four forty-sixers
Clinton, Dubya, Donny Bone Spurs, and me.
Holy shit! Same summer. Folks ask
what happened? Me not being Prez and all.
I ask, what happened to them?
Boomers all, but jeez Louise.
Serial killers Bundy, Tobin,
and Harold Shipman, shake
the skeletons in our closet.
Our birth year black sheep.
I’m proud of our singing and acting 46ers
like Cher, Liza, Rocky, sweet Dolly,
and the late Freddie. Linda Blue Bayou
sings no longer, sadly. Buffett from
that sleepy little town of Pascagoula,
Mississippi is resort Jimmy.
(I didn’t make the talent cut either)
Sajak, Barry (the last Gibb), Andre the Giant,
Glover and Cheech (we smokin’ dog shit?);
I thought Al Green moved on, but no.
Entertainers all. What’s Donovan doing?
And the Deepak guy who gets pissed
when the argument suggests
he makes a killing writing woo-woo.
May he forgive my snarky snicker.
It must not have been a good year.
Brit poet (the late) Peter Reading
was even born
on the exact same day as me.
I am still here
writing poems
as good as
(my neighbor)
Dubya’s paintings.
Look both ways from birth year to death days.
Even Reggie Jackson still loves October and minds the gaps.
Our Literary Journey 
A fun one, Bill, uniquely you. I needed a midweek lift, and you provided it. Many thanks.
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Thank you, Marilyn. Glad I could help.
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Glad you’re still here writing your poems, Bill. I enjoyed this one!
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Thank you, Sue. Glad you liked it.
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Hey, you left one out, ME! Up the July forty-sixers!
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Mea culpa, Keith. I mistook you for a much younger man. But I should have known, right? 🙂
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Haha, you really should!
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What a year that was! How interesting that ya’all are summer (or thereabouts) babies of ’46.
That was a truly fun read. See… I’m a 64, the reverse of you 😉 kinda funny, no?
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Thank you, Dale.
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Yes….and….1964. The year I graduated High School and enlisted in the USAF. 🙂
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Fabulous year, that…
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Of course. In different ways we were both released upon the world. LOL 🙂
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True!
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That was a cool read – I loved the ending.
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Glad you liked it, Joey. 🙂
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