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12/15 Poem of the Month

                                Hunch

I am young, I think I know a thing or two,

I tell you I have a hunch,

I know if I just study men, yes examine their moves,

I can be the one, the one to make a difference…

I can change the tide…

It could be me, the kid with the hunch…

Why I could stop the wars!

Suppose I was able to feed them all, all the starving children…

How would it be to stave off disease…?

Call me the boy with the hunch.

                                                  
O My... the years have passed,                                                                     

I remember my youth, the idealism…

The boy with that hunch, the hunch that would change the world…

Now I am the old man with the hunch back,

Yes that is what I mean…

I am an old man with a hunchback,

Another dead idealist; with an all too conspicuous hunch.

                                                                                                                                                                                                       ©   Joseph James      from ' O the Elms'

                           4-13-10