Sidetracked

“Great thoughts are thunk

     Great deeds are done

By common folks,”

     Said Hiram Gunn.

“I reckon now

     If truth was known

I’ve got some big

     Ones of my own.”

“I’ve done some big things

     Too, I’ll be bound;

But it hez failed

     To git around.

No matter what

     I do or say

It always goes

     The same ol’ way.”

“I git no fame

     Fur thought or deed;

My biggest works

     Jest go to seed.

The biggest thoughts

     I think, I swun,

Die uv ol’ age,”

     Said Hiram Gunn.

July 13, ‘09