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Recorded Reading (1:10): https://www.dropbox.com/s/z9f0k4kinxmqgbr/The%20Great%20Eccentrics.txt?dl=0

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The Great Eccentrics

Einstein’s wife did all his math
For he had failed the class
When he was back in High School ~
She was a mental lass

And he drank all his life,
Bought from young women of his town,
Human mothers’ milk
He really guzzled that stuff down!

Carl Jung had two wives, each were
The other’s bestest bosom sister
Each to the other would defer
Her household happiness prefer

He smoked every day, and when
He laughed it was so merrily
Folks would walk up from the street
To see what happiness be

Founding Father Franklin bathed
In his birthday suit
At his window every day
He didn’t give a hoot

And Joseph Campbell never watched
A movie or TV
So nothing would disturb
His philosophic reverie

If any of these wise ones tried
To function modern life beside
In our numb automatic day —
Genius would be put away

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This poet is physically disabled. Public housing being insufficient to her medical and creative needs, she is presently living, in order to continue working, in her minivan, publishing all of her works using one thumb on the touch screen of her smartphone, surviving at an income of a fraction of her nation’s poverty level. She would treasure any donation you might care to offer ~ http://www.UgiftABLE.com ● #72D-31S.

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