[Newspoetry] ALLEGED MILITARY SERVICE

[William Gillespie]

Yep.

I'd like to see the records, but I bet W logged about a haiku worth of air
time.

It weren't airplanes what got him high.



On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 Mhubertw at aol.com wrote:

> AMAZIN' BIG CRACK TEXAS FUBAR SQUADRON, PART 1
>
> ON A TEXAS SUMMER DAY
> IN THE MONTH OF MAY,
> A '68 YALIE BUM CAME A SLITHERIN'.
> DOWN A WELL GREASED SKID
> CAME THIS PAMPERED FRATERNITY KID
> LOOKIN' TO DO HIS DRAFT DODGIN' JUST A QUIVERIN'.
> TO THE TEXAS AIR GUARD UNIT OF MILK AND HONEY,
> WHERE A YALIE BUM COULD STAY
> FOR MANY A DAY,
> BECAUSE HE HAD LOTS OF FAMILY MONEY!
> FOR A RICH POLITICIAN AND HIS COWARDLY SON,
> THEY WERE ON THE RUN.
> TO ELLINGTON FIELD THEY WERE SCURRYIN'.
> SAID THE OL' YALIE BUM TO THE CRAVEN SON,
> "WHY AREN'T YOU HURRYIN'?"
> SO THE VERY NEXT DAY,
> THEY SKULKED AWAY.
> W'S DEFERMENT DAYS, THEY WERE ALMOST OUT,
> BUT THAT'S WHAT THE "CHAMPAGNE UNIT" WAS REALLY ALL ABOUT!
>
> COPYRIGHT  2002  HUBERT WILSON
>