POETS UNITED !

HEY KIDS !

There is an interview with me over at the Poets United site!

If you've ever wanted to learn about what makes Timoteo tick, click on the link and check it out.

Many thanks to Sherry Blue Sky for her amazing work on this!

ALMOST GROWN

My grand daddy chewed his food so slowly

that everyone at the table fell asleep

waiting for him to finish

A lone lima bean slipped his lips

and dropped to the floor

providing some diversion for me

when I was three

I was good at entertaining myself

playing both sides of the chess board

with an uncanny insight

into the mind of my opponent

while my Uncle Viggo recited

off-color limericks into his

tape recorder when he was drunk

enriching my early vocabulary in ways

the boys at school thought was cool

Upstairs in my bed

I'd lie awake at night

my little radio pulling in the booming signal

from south of the border

Wolfman Jack gave me an appreciation

for rhythm and blues

and the revelation that being crazy

would be my ticket out of that lonely farmhouse

Biding my time

Playing Chuck Berry 45s on my lo-fi

and anyway I'm almost grown

A world of glory and heartache looming

that even my fanciful imagination

didn't see coming