Re: Reflection on the Joy of Growing AG's
Nice poem, and by the way, I am not the original, but am a wannabee.. Tony
Hickman is the first, then came pumpkinwitch, pumpkinflower, and then came
me.. lol
Paul S. Thompson wrote:
> With sincerest apologies to Jimmy Dean and to Rocky (the original pumpkin
> poet), I offer this bit of pumpkin dementia:
>
> BIG BAD JOHN (the AG version)
>
> Every morning in the patch you could see him arrive
> By the OTT he weighed three-forty-five
> Kinda broad at the shoulders and the blossom end
> You knew right away that he had grown again. Big John.
>
> Big John
> Big John
> Big Bad John
> Big John
>
> His grower knew just how to tend his home
> Adding fert and water and sandy loam
> Didn't do an awful lot, just grew (and how)
> If ya spoke at all, ya just said "Wow!" to Big John.
>
> In the fall he weighed nearly twelve hundred pounds,
> Headin' to the weigh-off to claim his crown,
> Come October Second on the winner's stand
> With that lucky grower at the promised land, Big John.
>
> Big John
> Big John
> Big Bad John
> Big John
>
> Then comes the day that stops all the lyin'
> When the scales creak and men start cryin'
> Growers are prayin' and hearts beat fast
> All the fruit was weighed 'cept for the last, that's John.
>
> Through the dust and the heat of this man-made fun
> Moved a giant of a fruit -- a really heavy one
> Carrying the tarp, eight men gave out a groan
> And then on the scales, he stood there alone, Big John.
>
> Big John
> Big John
> Big Bad John
> Big John
>
> They weighed this example of a labor of love
> A judge yelled out, "Ninety-eight pounds above!"
> And twenty men scrambled to beg for some seed
> And his grower just smiled, with no trace of greed.
>
> Then from the scales, they lower'd him back down
> And came a rumble as he touched the ground
> As they carefully opened up the back of the rind,
> Everybody knew it was the end of the line for Big John.
>
> Big John
> Big John
> Big Bad John
> Big John
>
> With photographs taken to remember it,
> His grower's got six months to savor it,
> Then with seed from this year and help from the Lord
> Next year in the patch there'll be another big gourd -- Big John
>
> Big John
> Big John
> Big Bad John
> Big John
> Big John
> Big Bad John
> Big John
>
> Did somebody say, "One more time!" ? Nah, I didn't think so.
>
> Grow well and keep dreaming!
>
> Paul Thompson
> Armada, Michigan
>
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