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By Dan Donlan, www.PoetryPoem.com/dandy1    Unlock all Features - Upgrade to Poetry Prime

667 STUDENTS STILL KNOWN alive, Classes 55 56 57
Is Alzheimer's so advanced I forgot them all
Only recognized four names
The sister of the girl who said,
"Dandy you are the last boy I would date"
You well be a drunk like your Dad"
I heard she died in a trailer park from alcoholism
I liked her brother we went into the Air Force together
Oh, and a second girlfriend
She was angry when I wrote from Korea,
"Recipient deceased--Elvis influence "Return to Sender!"
Docs said I had three to five years at most
Were they wrong outlived them all
One morning sunrise at a time
She sent me a wedding announcement,
"Do not come to my wedding!"
Like I would have sympathy for the groom
She is still alive tried to contact me
So forgiving or desperate
The guy who was going to beat me up
It was cold, I wore a track outfit and running shoes
I stood in the rain with a hundred coming to watch
Mostly to see the fullback beat me up
He didn't show up--heard he was a draft dodger
But he was smarter than me I caught a cold
He was twice as big I was twice as fast
Sometimes you have to take a beating to impress the onlookers
She being the last girl who would date me
She married the fat dude in the trailer park
This guy was a fake tough guy
He told some people if I would wait in the rain
to get beaten up I must have been tougher than I looked
How was he to know I was just stupider than I looked?
Say a prayer for Wordrider and health problems








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