Our hero is born penniless and rough
urged from the start to be pitiless and tough
kicks his father’s shin when he is three
and with this act sets his mother free.
Aptly named when he turns five,
pinned with a name that keeps him alive;
makes a bad bargain when he is six
fifty years later, still mending the bricks.
Nearly quite convinced by the age of ten,
the thing to be wary of is other men.
Yet women are created, not for your solace
certainly not put here to soothe your phallus.
But try telling that to the thirteen-year-old
and again and again to the something year bold!
A whirlwind of cannabis, sex, and acid
he learned to float by way of the placid.
Kicked out of the house by age eighteen
met up with a devil who fed him his spleen.
Out of sandy tan into olive green,
Uncle Sam crafts a man from the boy unseen.
Marries a German lass by the age of twenty
makes damn sure divorce comes in a hurry.
His second wife bears him a son
not so long before that one is done.
Meets the girl of his dreams and finishes college
then keeps right on pursuing knowledge.
Builds a tower made of dreams and paper
always thinking of what comes later
when the son is grown – the tower sheds leaves
for the past our rough hero grieves.
To be continued.
