Return of Pretty Boys Floyd
Tormented America will see his likes in multiples return?
Will America continue to flounder and churn?
Incomprehensible bonuses paid by taxpayers to high living, high rise thieves!
Stimulus of ever more unemployed lines is all America receives!
Tired of Ponzi schemes and such!
Surely America with its people is out of touch!
Anger and homeless frustration!
No positive direction - certainly no ovation!
Damned by fools with such leaders of destruction!
Their numbers need immediate reduction!
Ultimately other Pretty Boy FloydS will appear?
Responding to destitution and fear!
Nearly three quarters of a century ago at his funeral she predicted there would be another - AND another!
She of the Sallisaw autumn foreboding was my Mother!
Charles Arthur Floyd (2-3-1904 to 10-22-1934) aka 'Pretty Boy' Floyd
Bank Robber and Alleged Killer
poem by Hubert Wilson
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Uncle Lemon's Revenge
Most of the county had not a clue
With Uncle Lemon, just what to do?
This rascal most notorious
Over the sheriff always seemed to be victorious.
Selling the best illegal Prohibtion whiskey,
No matter how risky.
Chicago gangsters in the Great Depression
Had even failed to stop his competing 'liquid profession'.
With World War II raging,
Uncle Lemon's vaunted talents with local ladies grew more engaging.
With most younger men away at war,
Uncle Lemon's middle-aged charms took him too far.
His Saturday night dance hall fights
Reached new heights.
Then, the local draft board
Reached a convenient unanimous accord.
Even though Uncle Lemon was too old,
They would draft him into the army to be controlled.
He would be away till the war ended,
Which the local sheriff thought most splendid!
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poem by Hubert Wilson
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