Why I'm Here

I’m here, I’m here, have been for some seventy-year.

Why, why, why after all this time? Every day I keep a

Wonderin’, why?

I’m here, I’m here, have been nigh on seventy-year.

Ask myself time and again when I get to thinkin’

Why, why, why after all this time?

I’m here, more these days than where I’ve been before.

I’m here, have been all along for seventy-some year.

Why, well why? ‘Cause, I got all these words.

I arrived here not a moment too soon (a might late, some

May say), but here none-the-less after seventy-some year.

Keep tossin’out all these words, and like dadgum boomerangs,

They keep comin’ back. Gotta say, been that way with some

Gaps here and there for prett-near seventy-year. Don’t normally

Speak in the vernacular this way...

Thought I’d throw out somethin’ different today.

Chris Hanch 6-10-17