6/23/2018 Poetry By Grant GuyHe Never Said He Was Jesse James He never said he was Jesse James Although he would have liked to be He ain't no Butch Cassidy Those days are gone like rotary phones And honky-tonk juke boxes Daydreaming died in Cassidy's days That is why Cassidy moved to Bolivia Like him Bolivia lived in the past Out of window he looked out at the red setting sun He sighed deeply and wilted His wife coldly commented Either evolve or die Out of the window he saw his gravestone Poem #5 He flipped hamburgers She flipped his heart She worked the counter At the A&W in Transcona That was enough of a common ground To base their 35 year marriage on Their three children And their eight grandchildren All worked at the A&W in Transcona For three generations they were the Burger Family They called their marriage a success She Was she was a garbageman's daughter every day was Christmas he was a taxi driver's son everyday was bootcamp in the face they had a go at it he turned out to be no present she he could drive only so far she said because of you i stopped believing in Santa Claus he said because of you i learnt life is not fare luckily for the kids they never had he married a stripper and died out back of a bar in Vancouver she married a lawyer and is a broken woman without her Santa Claus ![]() Bio: Grant Guy is a Canadian poet, writer, playwright, stage director and designer. He has over one hundred poems and short stories published in internationally. He has five books published: Open Fragments, On the Bright Side of Down, Blues for a Mustang, The Life and Lies of Calamity Jane and Bus Stop Bus Stop. His plays include an adaptation of Paradise Lost and the Grand Inquisitor. He was the 2004 recipient of the MAC’s 2004 Award of Distinction and the 2017 recipient of the WAC Making A Difference Award. Comments are closed.
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