Born This Way
I was born beneath a sentimental star
always looking over my shoulders
not forgetting what lies behind
(so sorry, St. Paul).
Strange speech often
erupts from my lips like
I gotta see a man about a horse or
That’s a fine how do you do.
Generally people at parties
find this charming at first
but then it makes them nervous
so they step away to rub their phones.
If asked to explain this warmth
in my bones all I can say is
I was born this way. I do my part
to melt the world’s cold cold heart.
I gotta talk to an old man about a dog
happier n a dead sow in a garden
fixin to go,light a shuck etc
John,you can take a boy out of the south but you cant take the south out of the boy
thank you Lord
LOVE IT!
John, thank you for sharing your warmth. For reminding me it is okay. Raising 6 grandchildren who were given their first language lessons by people who were not from the South, I often have to suffer through them taking a timeout to frantically whisper to each other to check if any of them knows what “knee-high to a grasshopper” or some other “old” saying means. Somebody ends up rubbing on a phone to look it up. It is hard to hold forth on any subject when the audience has to keep stopping for vocabulary lessons.
So glad you were ” born this way”.
I agree with Gwen. The world needs your warm, heart-melting words.
Honey Chile, you can stand beside me at a party any day and offer up any ole words you like. I promise to videophone, though it won’t be easy. ?
Well, that was supposed to say I will hide my phone , Dang AutoCorrect.
🙂
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