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The Ghost of Charles De Gaulle revisited

Somebody's Birthday

By Bruce UnderwoodPublished 5 years ago 1 min read
The Ghost of Charles De Gaulle revisited
Photo by Chris Karidis on Unsplash

I cited the movie "To Have and Have Not"

I know what that movie is about

I would like for him to upstage the birthday boy

I would like to have a life I better enjoy

I am not the tormented outcast of the first film

A barkeep in a town within

I am sure the French will not damn the French

I want a new lover not to be a wench

Wench is a derogatory name

Hosting a child can be the same

When i said "fashionably late"

It could be the number of American lives to equate

If we had entered when Paris fell

Maybe D Day would not be living hell

America already paid a heavy price

On fighting the war they made the due sacrifice

This is just the story of three little birds

The very youngest one needs better herds

She is capable of feeling and reason

That does not change with passing season

Humphrery Bogart must have found out

That i was not Timothy but Bart about

Maybe The Simpsons was a down payment

Of a future to meet the pavement

Maybe today is "The Scouring of the Shire"

And greater deeds will yet transpire

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About the Creator

Bruce Underwood

I am trying to figure out if i can make the same amount of money working as a poet for Vocal that i can working part time as a dishwasher.

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