Showing posts with label Poems about First World War Veterans. Show all posts
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Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Genuine Bull Durham Smoking Tobacco - poem

Lawrence Hall
mhall46184@aol.com

Genuine Bull Durham Smoking Tobacco

He sat on the old board fence, his chair of state
All spiffy in his Sunday-pressed khakis
Though he wasn't much for going to church
And his Other Hat, still a farmer’s hat

With his teeth and his workworn, sunburnt hand
(The other hand somehow mislaid in France)
He played the paper and ‘baccy and tag
Into a censer of sacred sweet smoke

And all us little boys watched him in awe
And hoped for the bag with its little string draw