P leasure
A lways
To-be-around

Beware Of The Bull

Welcome back with open arms,
You and all your lovely charms.

I would walk a mile,
Just to see your nice smile.

Your wonderful and intelligent, too,
You can tell by the things you do.

You're an exciting person to be around,
Even if you don't make a sound.

You're delightful, good-looking, and clever, you see,
And they're all very good points to be.

With you back my cup runneth over-it's full,
I warn you to BEWARE OF THE BULL.

*****

Dad obviously wrote this poem and took it to the first day of the second class (six weeks) he took from Pat Quigley.

It's clear that he was quite fond of her and had over a half century to perfect the ways of flattering women. But what he didn't seem to realize is that at his age, any flattery he tried using wasn't going to work.

None of the poems he submitted in 1980 sold but a couple were being held. He wrote the prose and poems in a shaky handwriting that I sometime had a difficulty deciphering when I went to type them.

And so we near the end of his short but, to Dad, satisfying writing career. But we're not quite at the end yet.