I never ever considered myself a poet
11th grade language arts I was asked to read and recite
500 lines of poetry to pass required
I had to go to summer school to graduate
I studder and suffered memory lapses
Entered college on probation lacking Junior Language Arts
1.8 grade average did not take education seriously
Failure to complete poetry dropped my gradepoint
I went to college on a basketball scholarship
To play basketball needed passing grades
Someone said creative writing an easy passing grade
First day in class teacher said,
"Anyone who can get a poem published
In Writers Magazine gets an automatic "A"
Does not have to take poetry portion
I was used to "C's and D's
My poem for my Mother was published
Revised after he death of Cancer
The joke is found an old album of first poems
This poem found on poem to Mother Fern Erma Bisyak
A separate Poem
If I should die
Never published
Let these poems
Be my legacy
To a fool
Who never gave up
A dream