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Hallucination
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0 posted 2003-10-09 01:38 PM


"Mr. Jenkins"

There's an old teddybear in the backyard
With one eye, no mouth and a fawl stinch
A woman is starring out the window
with robber cloves on standing by the sink
It's coming down better get you inside, she says
Which one of my kids left you in this bibb
She puts him down to dry by the furnise
But there is just one small thing that she missed

She wrote his name on his red scarf
As soon as she learned how to write
Had tea parties dressed in moms clothes
She took him to bed everynight
From way back then and ever since
The scarf have said Mr. Jenkins

She's down in the kitchen can't sleep tonight
So she starts to dig through childhood photos
Dad with his new car and me in his arms
And mom when she was just thirty years old
Here's one from christmas in nineteensixty
Daddy is dressed up as santa right there
With a sack filled with gifts for us children
And I got a beautiful teddybear

She wrote his name on his red scarf
As soon as she learned how to write
Had tea parties dressed in moms clothes
She took him to bed everynight
From way back then and ever since
The scarf have said Mr. Jenkins

© Copyright 2003 Brian Eggertsen - All Rights Reserved
Sunnyone
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since 2000-07-06
Posts 5334
Staffordshire, England
1 posted 2003-10-09 05:22 PM


Oh I love this one...it brought back so many memories of my childhood Christmas, and my old teddy bear.  Got a tear in my eye now, but a smile while reading...thank you for this one!  ~S~

Accept these small gifts from my gypsy heart  ~S~

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