A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW---HE COULDA BEEN A BEE GEE

These next two poems are a little different, but
what the heck, I had fun writing them. I hope you
enjoy them too. The first one I thought of while I
was watching Maurice at the keyboard during the
'One Night Only' concert. The second, "He Coulda
Been A Bee Gee", came to me while watching a
St. Louis Cardinal baseball game with my husband.
I have to quit watching so much TV!

A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW

MAURICE:
You pound on your poor keyboard
As if there were no tomorrow.
I don't know what those keys did to you
But you must fill them with pain and sorrow,

You batter each and every key
And send your keyboard bouncin'.
One day that keyboard will fight back
And give you quite a trouncin'.

BARRY:
What you do to your guitar,
It's a crime and it's a sin.
Has it ever told you
Of the pain you put it in?

Take off your shirt (yeah!-oops, sorry)
And scratch on your ribs
With the same force and speed.
Wrap those long fingers around your own neck
'Till you're beggin' to be freed.

ROBIN:
Why do you strangle your microphone?
Of this I'm not quite clear.
But when it sees you coming
It must stand and shake with fear.

You get a choke hold in your mike
To sing each little ditty.
And from poor Mikes point of view
This scene is not so pretty.

One day those instruments will turn on you
As you pound and scratch and choke.
And they'll tell you,
"I DON'T THINK IT'S FUNNY, HONEY"
When you say, "I STARTED A JOKE"

They will answer:
"HEY THERE OMEGA MAN,
YOU STAND TALL AND UNDERSTAND.
LIVE OR DIE-THIS AIN'T NO JIVE TALKIN'.
HOLD ME LIKE A CHILD YOU GUYS,
OR BABY I'M A WALKIN'!"

HE COULDA BEEN A BEE GEE

My favorite Cardinal baseball player
Is a guy named Gary Gaetti.
Why is this man a favorite of mine?
Because he coulda been a Bee Gee.

Coulda been a Bee Gee you ask,
How can this be true?
Because with a simple tip of his cap,
You'll see he has a Bee Gee do.

The hair on his head is curly and long,
Quite attractive to be sure.
But the hair on top is almost gone.
The true test of a Bee Gee pure.

Now he's no Mark McGwire, I'll admit.
'Tho homers he's hit quite a few.
And now, alas, I'm sad to admit,
He's wearing Cubbie blue.

Sometimes he has a beard, sometimes not.
But that's okay with me.
Because with or without a beard on his face,
He coulda been a Bee Gee.

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ON EAGLES WINGS