Michael Coy Poet Rhyme

The Last Shall Be First

(Torre Vela = prominent tower, part of
the Alhambra palace, Granada, Spain)

My lame-ass lips can't even draw 
McDonalds milkshake through a straw: 
and if I must 
run for the bus, 
I take an oxygen inhaler. 
You like your house? I rent a trailer. 
But yell it through the loudest-hailer: 
I kissed Leila! 

Some lucky guy looks like George Clooney, 
while I resemble Mickey Rooney. 
I'm such a shmuck, 
if vampires suck, 
then call me Vlad the (Bad) Impaler! 
I guard my dough? Like a drunken sailor. 
But study this at Yale, or Baylor: 
I kissed Leila! 

I'll never win that Golden Globe 
for lounging in a silken robe 
like Errol Flynn, 
appearing in 
a bedroom scene with young Liz Taylor: 
my books won't sell like Norman Mailer: 
my jokes are rustier and staler 
than ol' Jed Clampett's cotton baler: 
I'm a no-mark, lamester, loser, failer. 
But shout it from the Torre Vela: 
I kissed Leila!

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Darren White February 28, 2017 at 2:03 AM 'Alf Leila wa-Leil (Thousand and one Night) ;) Oh, I am homesick when I think of the Alhambra. I've rolled my chair along the printed poem there on the walls in Arabic, reciting it. If you need an inhaler, you most definitely didn't climb your way to the entrance yourself, but took the bus ;) But you kissed Leila, and I love your poem. Darren White February 28, 2017 at 10:22 AM There is actually so much I don't know that it's a miracle that there are things I DO know ;) Michael Coy February 28, 2017 at 3:25 AM hehehe You certainly know your Granada. And you Al-Andalus. Come to think of it . is there anything you DON'T know?