Elton Camp Poet Rhyme

I'D Love To Be a Hermit In a Cave

I’d Love To Be a Hermit in a Cave

By Elton Camp

Thoreau is a man I especially admire
To live alone like him is my own desire

The only thing is he didn’t go far enough
In his cabin, he still had worldly stuff

I would like to sit alone in quiet and dark
Never hear a phone or a dog’s angry bark

How it would feel I desire to understand
To be independent and live off the land

With nobody to tell me I ought to get ahead
Or to ask if the latest new book I have read

It would be fine to sleep as late as I please
What a happy life with things like these

Only one worldly compromise I’d want to get
I just don’t see how I can live without Internet

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Ilene Bauer June 4, 2012 at 10:54 AM i was waiting to see how you'd end this and you didn't disappoint - very clever! Elton Camp June 4, 2012 at 11:51 AM In the original version that I put into my latest book, I have a great illustration of the mouth of a cave with a cable running inside it to bring the Internet. Elton