[RCL]

A Red, Red Nose

After Robert Burns, “A Red, Red Rose”

O my lover has a red, red nose
And she can’t sing a tune;
O my lover has a nasal squawk
Just like a lovelorn loon.

So bosomy you are my love,
So racked with lust am I,
That I will love you most, my dear,
When you revere my fly.

When you revere my fly, my dear,
My mind spins like a top
And I will love you more my love
When swiving you won’t stop.

O you did well, my red-nosed love!
But we must rest awhile!
And I will come again, my dear,
So my red nose will smile.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...a-red-red-rose

[Douglas G. Brown]

Ralph,

This is great!

[Erik Olson]

What Douglas said.

It's humorous that ‘squawk’ should overlay
Such eminent smoothness as this oft-sung lay.

Best
Erik

[RCL]

Douglas and Erik, thanks for looking in!

I'm chilling at my metaphorical geezers' home, and drooling.

We’re Uncool

Seven old men at the
Goodbye Convalescent

We’re uncool. We
Now drool. We

Eat early. We
Act squirrely. We

Stay up late. We
Fight fate. We

Watch porn. We
Are reborn.

After Gwendolyn Brooks, “We Real Cool”

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...2/we-real-cool

[Edmund Conti]

Hey, that's my life! Don't mock it.

[John Isbell]

I do like that homage to Gwendolyn Brooks.