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LOVE BUGS (love is in the air over Texas)

By bardofthewoods September 14, 2024 Leave a comment

By Don Kenton Henry For those not from the South, we are in the middle of “Love Bug” season here in Texas. This occurs each fall and spring. During this time, love is in the air. Literally. It occurs when millions (more likely, billions, or more!) Love Bugs copulate in mid-flight. It is the insect […]

Stand-Up Comedy, Civil Rights, and Corporal Punishment (in the second grade)

By bardofthewoods March 6, 2024 4 Comments

By Don Kenton Henry PREFACE: The first time I was ever paddled was in the 2nd grade. (In fact, what I did got me carried out of the classroom by my ear. The cartilage in my right ear was broken and still goes “snap, crackle, and pop” today.) It was joke day, and I got […]

Can’t Compete With California

By bardofthewoods September 11, 2016 Leave a comment

If tears were silver dollars I’d have you to thank for making me a rich man And if hurting me was your objective consider yourself accomplished But on your way to self-actualizing, I think someday you’ll be realizing you stand to inherit the fortune you gave me Bequeathed for the way you deserted, betrayed […]

LAST KISS

By bardofthewoods September 11, 2016 Leave a comment

Kiss an old friend and be glad that he is Kiss a grandpa and feel those whiskers of his Kiss a baby and taste its innocence A lover’s kiss is sweet and warm, an expression of caring Not as in kissing a whore Which is merely a means to an end But if […]

Stan And Me

By bardofthewoods September 11, 2016 Leave a comment

By Don Kenton Henry I ner’ been to Europe er met the president But I’ve sat on a warm wooden bridge and tossed pebbles at a crawdad I ner’ owned no car, but I’ve felt the summer sand between my toes as I walked down our lane to fetch the mail Ner’ had no […]

Mom

By bardofthewoods May 13, 2016 Leave a comment

By Don Kenton Henry Yours was the first voice I heard Each breath you took you shared with me, My heart beat but for you You kept your place each time I stumbled, though everything inside you begged, “Pick him up!” But you were there when I took my first steps You counseled me through […]

Quotations By The Bard*

By bardofthewoods August 2, 2013 Leave a comment

At first, my psychiatrist believed in Uncle Waldo . . . and then he didn’t. But I always knew he was there. And here’s the proof. “Quotations from the Bard.” (you don’t really think I came up with these pearls of wisdom on my own, do you?) *(All quotes are by The Bard Of The […]

History Trumps A Royal Flush

By bardofthewoods June 27, 2013 Leave a comment

HISTORY TRUMPS A ROYAL FLUSH “The best woman I ever had, I won in a card game. Not in New Orleans, Vegas or some other “City of Sin”, but in Dayton, Ohio. My prize was an even less likely result given I had not played poker since the sixth grade.” By Don Kenton Henry The […]