another song

by jack dale coody

illustrated by rhoda penmarq

my poems are free, and so am i whatever flies in the windswept sky can hear my song - absolutely no charge i'm the bard-ambassador at large i've worn out a thousand pairs of shoes i've rocked on the rails and been rolled by the muse through georgia dust and wyoming hail i've defied the world to tell my tale judges and congressmen with their laws auxiliary ladies with their fancy gewgaws the diplomats in their pinstriped suits can look down their nose - i don't give a hoot my poems are free, and so am i i wear no gucci shoes, no brooks brothers tie keep your nobel prize - i'll save my words for the midnight highway and the hummingbirds