Every farm boy knows that the first day of summer Is that morning, that happy, glorious morning In May when writing topic sentences And solving for X are but fading ghosts
He’s up at dawn without being called even once And pulling on his jeans and and boots and tee He greets his fishing rod upon the rack And Grandpa’s tackle box, which was left to him
Because
After breakfast and getting up the cows For milking, he is the king of all his world
Your ‘umble scrivener’s site is: Reactionarydrivel.blogspot.com. It’s not at all reactionary, tho’ it might be drivel.
Lawrence Hall’s vanity publications are available on amazon.com as Kindle and on bits of dead tree: The Road to Magdalena, Paleo-Hippies at Work and Play, Lady with a Dead Turtle, Don’t Forget Your Shoes and Grapes, Coffee and a Dead Alligator to Go, and Dispatches from the Colonial Office.