Scarborough Gypsy - Passed 86

You can't be a poet
Passed eighty six
I wonder why that is

Is it because
At eighty seven
You've lost all faculties

Or perhaps 'they' think
That by that time
The poet's dead and gone
There MUST be SOMEONE out there
Who can prove them wrong!

Scarborough Gypsy

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