Goode Guy Poet Rhyme

On Valentine's Day

far back in 278 Anno Domini 
Emperor Claudius II had hung
a holy priest called Valentine,

Captain Cook on the 14th of '79
having circumnavigated his life was
not a God, so killed by native blood line

the Teddy Bear's 14th felt sorrowfully
when lost to him on that day in '84
his mother, Mittie, and wife, Alice Lee

that was the day back in '29
when thugs gunned down thugs
their revenged vendetta time

same time as Chicago gunned down
penicillin was also discovered
supplanting the sulfa drugs around

dehydrated with fever oozing out
virally you left too that 14th day
leaving me with a sorrowed doubt

so remembered year after year
love's shot in the heart
of those brothers we hold dear

in some future 14th to come, perhaps
my loving lover's gaze I'll remember
handing some flowers, a love relapse

© Goode Guy 2012-02-09

for my closest brother

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