To visit a museum
Where you’ve never been before
Means you have the opportunity
To amble and explore.
At the Worcester* Art Museum
Were mosaics on display
And some special arms and armor
In an orderly array.
There were works by famous artists
And a treasure trove amassed
Just awaiting our perusal
As we slowly moseyed past.
In the gift shop, objects beckoned
So I bought a little treat
To remind me of my visit
And to make the day complete.
*pronounced “Wooster,” like “wood”
There was a day on TV
When westerns were all the rage
Together our masked hero the Lone Ranger
with Tonto kept outlaws in their cage
Wagon Train kept rolling along
Seth Adams the leader
Flint McCullough chief scout
old Charlie Wooster was the feeder
My all-time favorite Cowboy
had to be clearly Wagon Train
Flint was my all-time hero
my chief scout taking the strain!
Findlay Wooster, he told me
he was, a world famous
Producer. We started Date-em
My intisipation he would be
true. He introduced me to
Goneil Lago, a chelloust from
"Mix and Waco" the bank thats
always on the tele. I was so
excited and kinda delighted
he winked and knodded at me.
Clever conversations while we
were dating, concerts, and
theatrics to see. We went for
suppa at linzzrys, he started
acting stingy, order one plate
and split it while me. We had
ah quarrel and Tiff, he said I
had a fit, and he would be
delighted if I'd leave him be.
Well that's when I meet Gaffa
a pleasant forever after, Gaffa
makes me feel like a queen.
I sang a ditty on his single,
he said I was very special,
that's when Gaffa proposed
to me!
There was a day on TV
Where westerns were all the rage
You could take your pick
From your TV paper page
Together our masked hero the Lone Ranger
With Tonto kept outlaws in a spin
Have Gun Will Travel was the card
For black dressed professional gunfighter Paladin
Wagon Train kept rolling along
Seth Adams the leader
Flint McCullough chief scout
Old Charlie Wooster was the feeder
Rawhide kept the cattle moving
Gil and Randy kept control
In Dodge City it was Gunsmoke
Marshall Matt Dillon was key role
On the ponderosa it was Bonanza
Where Ben Cartwright was the boss
With his family of three boys
Adam, little Joe and Hoss
Wells Fargo was the stagecoach
Where Jim Hardie was the star
Now these are only some
For they were many more by far
They were the Virginian and the Rifleman
Laramie, Maverick and Cheyenne
The High Chaparral not to mention alias Smith and Jones
These made us all a fan
Cowboys where are you?
Memories of you is our lot
On TV we can’t see
Is this our last shot?
poetgord@2013
Got home awound twee (I was dwunk as a wouse)
Awose pwomptly at six wit' dwy cotton-mouth
I knew wather soon my day was gonna' bwow
When I stwuggled outta' bed and stubbed my wight toe
Fwopped back on the mattwess cwying and twitchin'
Staggoid back up and wimped to the kitchen
Stumbled to the counter to bwew Folger's bwend
Spiwwed it down my Hanes and boint my widdle fwend
Hobbled to the bathwoom to wustle up some Tums
Twipped on my fwip-fwop and bwuised my weft bun
Should not have cawoused wit' owe Bugsey wast night
Now my head hoits and de wight is too bwight
If I had not dwunk gin for my mowale booster
I coulda' swept in trew 'dat wascally wooster
(Don't feel wike wunning dat siwwy wat-wace
Tink I might caw in sick at the Woony-Tune pwace)
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