So much has happened to this writer over fifty

Years spent getting educated and getting nifty

At writing down almost everything comes to mind

In a few short coupled lines which tend to rhyme



I've been doing it so long now, I think it's taken over

My ability to write straight-forward prose to cover

The things I've done and all the places I've been

I'd have great difficulty doing it without this scene



The structure which forms the foundation for this

Is carefully constructed in a quiet world of bliss

Which leavens the torment of all the mind-travel

By the fun introduced by making it all land level



Without the pleasure of rhyme to give it all twist

My life story would be a bore all would give a miss

It may well be these ditties are only read by a few

Myself, whoever comes here to read them, and you



For whatever I write about lends itself to a little fun

Little slices of life delivered in rhyme and a few puns

Take the lilt out of it all and the work would unravel

Bit by little bit, as it falls hard onto ground in the gravel



Christopher W. Thomas

11:05am Friday 11/21/97