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According to a guy on TV,
The English (?) gladly…
Put on costumes
Because one assumes,
They want interesting lives madly!
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Ready new lives to embark,
Dress up like the theme of a park…
Like Janey here
You’ll be sincere,
Making a positive mark!
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–Jonathan Caswell
Halloween…time for dressing
Up in imaginative suggesting…
Of characters bold
And some rather old,
While asking for candied blessings!
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–J.E.C.
WAITING FOR THE WATER TRUCK
In Republica Dominica, in 1984,
I missed the bottled water truck because I chose to snore…
I was not told
I must be bold,
To flag it down as it drove by our door!
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Now, in 2012, similarly,
I wait for the morning Cable guy to see…
Couldn’t sleep a wink
When I began to think,
Of missing the chance to reconnect the phone and TV!
–Jonathan Caswell
ROUGHING IT
We hit the tip of the iceberg
Like Titanic, started to drown,
We managed to stay a floating…
When most of our entertainment went down.
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We managed to pay the electric
And the rent, so we have a home,
But Cable was lost at the end of the month…
No more TV, internet…or phone!
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The post-dated check should reach them,
In time for a mid-month restart…
Entertaining ourselves in the darkness
Is almost a forgotten art.
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Yes, we could do THAT, if we wanted,
But how about the rest of the time…
An evening goes slow without TV shows
About the reruns of which we can whine.
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My wife sees better with new glasses,
And I have interests in which to dabble…
I’m not much for cards, but what passes
For fun—-we break out the SCRABBLE*.
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We discovered how to play CD’s
On the computer Media Player…
And cleaned the off battery contacts,
To find daytime radio fare.
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In the Community Room and at work,
I have some access to “this”…
But at home with less to do
We’ve got more time to kiss!
–Jonathan Caswell
NOTE*: SCRABBLE is a word game with letter tiles on a board to make interconnecting words for points.
By the Mighty Mumford 