I Was a 12 Year Old Rock Star

Only certain people gamble. They say to work as hard as possible when you’re young so that the bounties of life’s splendor are so readily experienced. My dream was to go to Chicago’s Second City Comedy College. My lawsuit fell through. I would have had to seek wage garnishment, which can take years with no resolution in sight. After the lawyers took about $8,000.00, roughly $17,000.00 was left for me. I went to gamble. I would have cleared $90,000.00, but one of the 5 baseball teams that I had picked as winners, lost. I did pull out $12,000.00, so that I would be up. Now I sit and wonder about selling my screenplay. The Boy’s Mother is a Widow, so things could still work out. In any case, please consider the realities of the real world before jumping right in! Below is another unfinished poem/song lyric.

I was walking outside and then a thought of you began, to remember way back when, to the comfort of that my vision ran, to a day that we had planned, and the invitations we would send, our hallowed day so held within, a joyous, merry, and extravagant, righteous land, and higher than the angels sing, again, again, and again.