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A schooner of Pabst,
a tumbler of wine,
a Slim Jim to share –
please say you’ll be mine.
The Bard of Sherman Avenue
The nutrients
are rich and rare,
and yet it’s much
like chewing air.
The Bard of Sherman Avenue
He grew distracted in old age,
which led to mix-ups on the stage:
quite disregarding lifelong habit
he pulled his hat out of the rabbit.
The Bard of Sherman Avenue
If a clunk and a clang
on the rooftop you hear
it’s because old St. Nick
has the chains on this year.
The Bard of Sherman Avenue
( God bless us, every one )
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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