the four college years

(1)

young, fresh men

do much range quite far an’ wide,

all goggle-eyed.

(2)

slightly older males are s’awful more

in sundry ways; but they often do backslide,

do regress, and with ill-timed false pride.

(3)

by the Wayne by an’ by,

when did June, your

wife,

(4)

decide to leave your sorry

life

rather’n see’n’ your

flagitious marriage get …

its last reprieve sans epithet?

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barbsdad2003

18 years 10 months ago

A Howdy Right Back

Number one, check the title of this loony piece. Number two, look for clues as to the fun I might be having with it. Number three, note the italicized words in the body of the nonsense. They should, combined with the other three clues hereabove, in the end tell you all. If you're still overreaching (which of course will result in further confusion), get back to me on it. I'll be happy to make the whole thing even clearer. Glad to see you're back in comment heaven. Regards, Chuckles PS: You are making it too complicated. Probably a first for you, I realize. But that's OK. I appreciate your attention.

Quillsvein1

18 years 10 months ago

Involving

You use a lot of archaic old lingo that I can't say I fully understand, but in some ways your style of writing reminds me of George Oppen--an architect of language rather a descriptive, narrative type poet. This obviously has to do with age and mortality. The only thing I would work on is making the piece more accessible to readers, if you're concerned with that. Not every poet has to be or should. All in all, very entertaining.

barbsdad2003

18 years 10 months ago

Although Your Comment I Much Appreciate ...

I would here like to indicate that as I approach 70, I'm also growing older--- and even (I hate to brag) at times wiser. In general the language I use is found in current dictionaries, albeit at times Webster's marks something as archaic or obsolete ... I think too often a judgment call uninvited, gratuitous, and out of turn. I know the current vogue is to write within the boundaries of a nonreader's vocabulary, but I don't like that restriction, never have, which of course grants me latitude to cast my pen farther and wider than might be otherwise permitted. Also, being of advanced and dusty age, I'm quite familiar with words of advanced and dusty age. In fact, I love them. They help enrich my life. If you're saying the piece I've here written has to do with age and mortality---it doesn't. It was simply a fun write to involve a play on the names of the four college years. I do take embarrassingly great pleasure in entertaining. Thanx. Regards, Chuck PS: I didn't see my first TV until fifth grade. Howdy Doody Time was a favorite. Another was Hopalong Cassidy with his sidekick Gabby. I still don't know what a cell phone is.

barbsdad2003

18 years 10 months ago

Yes, I See

So first you didn't get it. Then you got it. Now again you don't get it.