Reminiscing Again
“The hardest thing for me to do.
Is to be like Captain Kangaroo.”
“Are you daft?”, you say to me.
“You’ve got to be at least 83.”
“I’m not even close” I say with a huff.
“What about H. R. Puff N. Stuff?”
“What the heck are you talking about?”
“Nothing, nothing at all” I say with a pout.
“Just thinking how it was as a kid.”
“Who were those weird people?”
“Cartoons and TV people.”
“Like Howdy Doody and Clarabelle.”
“Or the Tasmanian Devil from hell.”
“Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam.”
“ Catch the Road Runner if you can.”
“Before TV there was radio shows.”
“Like Inner Sanctum & The Space Patrol.”
“Amos and Andy. The Shadow knows.”
“Gunsmoke and Roy Rogers too.”
“So many I can’t tell them all to you.”
“What? No Dragon Ball Z or Pokemon?”
“Nothing on today was on back then”
“Those were simpler days back when.”
“I miss those days & the fun we had.”
“Too many people these days are sad.”
“Reminiscing is fun to do.”
“You can do it when your older too.”———R. W. Johnson—–(2014)