A Red-Neck Love Poem

A Redneck Love Poem

SUSIE LEE DONE FELL IN LOVE,
SHE PLANNED TO MARRY JOE.

SHE WAS SO HAPPY 'BOUT IT ALL,

SHE TOLD HER PAPPY SO.

PAPPY TOLD HER, SUSIE GAL,

YOU'LL HAVE TO FIND ANOTHER.

I'D JUST AS SOON YO' MA DON'T KNOW,

BUT JOE IS YO' HALF BROTHER.

SO SUSIE PUT ASIDE HER JOE

AND PLANNED TO MARRY WILL.

BUT AFTER TELLING PAPPY THIS,

HE SAID, 'THERE'S TROUBLE STILL.

YOU CAN'T MARRY WILL, MY GAL,

AND PLEASE DON'T TELL YO' MOTHER.

BUT WILL AND JOE, AND SEVERAL MO'

I KNOW IS YO' HALF BROTHER.

BUT MAMA KNEW AND SAID, MY CHILD,

JUST DO WHAT MAKES YO HAPPY.

MARRY WILL OR MARRY JOE;

YOU AIN'T NO KIN TO PAPPY.

BRINGS A TEAR TO YER EYE, DON'T IT?

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The Ordinary & The Extraordinary

The news media tell us ordinary things famous people do - their vacations, careers, love affairs, a new hairdo, or some silly remark they made ... Never or rarely mentioned are the extraordinary things ordinary people do.

Things like a badly paid sales attendant in a huge department store, seeing to your needs patiently at a minute before closing time, or the taxi driver who told you that you had paid him more than what's marked on the meter, or a public servant that actually and smilingly serve! The ones step aside to let you pass, those who wait quietly in the queue even when there are no guards or police watching. Or the ones who bent down to pick up the scattered items for you when you drop the shopping bag, or the one who escorts an old lady to cross a busy road.

These ordinary people remain faceless and nameless, unsung heroes, with the only compensation of that satisfaction one feels, having done something one should, being useful or helpful to somebody, even just for a brief moment.

Have you done something today that makes yourself or other people happy?

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