He sat on the old board fence, his chair of state All spiffy in his Sunday-pressed khakis Though he wasn't much for going to church And his Other Hat, still a farmer’s hat
With his teeth and his workworn, sunburnt hand (The other hand somehow mislaid in France) He played the paper and ‘baccy and tag Into a censer of sacred sweet smoke
And all us little boys watched him in awe And hoped for the bag with its little string draw
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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.