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Tex Dermott Mar 2021
Fame

Fortune

Swiftly came

For the dashing

Derf Merrymaker

Yet things were in reverse

For his childhood blood brother

Whose odd name was Teaberry Von

His fame rose slowly in his ancient days

Derf’s fame quickly fell died a common man
Mortality's a dying art
once we start
there is an end.

Most tend not to think of death
even when
every breath they take
takes them closer to the
close.

Who knows
things may change
or maybe not

I've got a soft spot for
the doubters
the hand wavers
the shouters,
but
living's still a dying game,

anyone want to play?
How quick we were to light the flares and quicker still to fail.

This midnight stone of memory weighs the
heavy days behind me
when I was but a jesting clown
a strolling merrymaker
in the streets of my home town.

If London Bridge is truly falling down
where will pilgrims cross?
I cross
their hearts and hope
that Canterbury's safe.

It's a lack of something, don't know what
that puts me in this awful spot,
perhaps more weight is what I need to
fall down with the bridge and drown,
but
that is neither here nor there
not anywhere as far as I can see
when
I'm in this mood.

Food for thought and thus I'll never starve
but
always hungry nonetheless.

Sunday's smack me in the chops
when
all and sundry
even Monday
stops
and pours some tea.

— The End —