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[OM] Re: Poetic Champions Compose (was Wayne's Spirit...)

Subject: [OM] Re: Poetic Champions Compose (was Wayne's Spirit...)
From: "Gordon J. Ross" <gordross@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 22:01:21 -0700
Hi Walt:

Throw on some flowers and you are good to go.
Nice rhyming couplets by the way.

Gord

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Walt Wayman" <hiwayman@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 11:40 AM
Subject: [OM] Poetic Champions Compose (was Wayne's Spirit...)


>
> Some of us are poets out of necessity.  My wife is out of town.
> She returns tomorrow.  I waited, as usual, until the last minute
> to get a Valentine's Day card.  I spent a futile half hour this
> morning at the Hallmark shop.  Then I went across the street to
> the liquor store, came home, opened a beer (or two) and wrote this
> poem:
>
> I went to the store to get you a card;
> I pilfered the racks, yard after yard.
> I elbowed old ladies, and young ones too;
> As I searched for a card just right for you.
> But soon my spirits started to sag;
> The cards were so sappy they made me gag.
> And a card is but something to read and then lose;
> So I decided instead just to buy you some booze!
>
> I have written this out, by hand, as neatly as I am able to, and
> it is attached to a great big bottle of Grand Marnier, one of her
> favorites.  This should keep me from becoming homeless for at
> least another few days.
>
> OM content: It's a pretty day here, so I took one along.
>
> Walt
>
>
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing
> than he needs. -- Mark Twain (defining the cause of Zuikoholism a
> century ago)
>
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