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“Oh, Geezerdom”

Oh, Geezerdom

Oh, geezerdom; oh, geezerdom,

When will the angels come?

Will the come in a van

Like a Wal-Mart clan.

Playing games in the parking lot

With the souls they have got?

Or will they come in a box

A mix that Betty Crocker talks

You through how to bake

Take the ingredients and shake

Them all together to make

Food for the angels’ sakes?

Oh, geezerdom; oh, geezerdom

When will the angels come?

I’m not sure that I know

If I’m yet ready to go

To rise fast of sink slow

To wherever the afterlife might exist.

Am I on the heavenly list?

Am I an ingredient

In a cake expedient

To be lifted to heaven to come

Or left as parking lot crumbs.

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Photo finish Friday: “The ferryman”

The ferryman

Down at the river /
the road laps into water. /
The ferryman cries.
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Photo finish Friday: “Unmentionable”

The tchotchke side of town

The tchotchke side of town

Bosom babe met the elephant
down by the merry-go-round.
Bosom babe asked the elephant
if he’d like to see the town?
Replied the red elephant
lifting his trunk high into the air,
“I’ve seen all I want to see
and much more than you care.”
She wondered what he meant
until she looked up high.
Then she spied her unmentionables:
dainty white against blue sky.
Let this be a lesson to you:
ladies don’t hang around
a shiny red elephant
from the tchotchke side of town.

— Photo by Brian Griffin; poem by David E. Booker

[Editor’s note: Yes, this poem is Fourth of July suitable (pardon the pun). It mentions the colors red, white, and blue.]

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