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From: "J. Jenkins" <>
Subject: Re: [TNDICKSO] Kinsman Poem
Date: Fri, 05 Nov 1999 06:11:22 -0600


That's a good one and oh!!!!! how true it is. <<vbg>
Lola

Cheryl Adams wrote:
>
> A rather good poem..I picked up on DC...
>
> Kinsman (original poem by Wayne Hand, 1999)
> >
> >
> > Alas, my elusive kinsman
> > You've led me quite a chase
> > I thought I'd found your courthouse
> > But the Yankees burned the place.
> > You always kept your bags packed
> > Although you had no fame, and
> > Just for the fun of it
> > Twice you changed your name.
> > You never owed any man, or
> > At least I found no bills
> > In spite of eleven offspring
> > You never left a will.
> > They say our name's from Europe
> > Came State side on a ship
> > Either they lost the passenger list
> > Or granddad gave them the slip.
> > I'm the only one looking
> > Another searcher I can't find
> > I pray (maybe that's his fathers name)
> > As I go out of my mind.
> > They said you had a headstone
> > In a shady plot
> > I've been there twenty times, and
> > Can't even find the lot.
> > You never wrote a letter
> > Your Bible we can't find
> > It's probably in some attic
> > Out of sight and out of mind.
> > You first married a .....Smith
> > And just to set the tone
> > The other four were Sarah's
> > And everyone a Jones.
> > You cost me two fortunes
> > One of which I did not have
> > My wife, my house and Fido
> > God, how I miss that yellow lab.
> > But somewhere you slipped up,
> > Ole Boy, Somewhere you left a track
> > And if I don't find you this year
> > Well...... Next year I'll be back!
> >
>
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