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FLOWERS OF SUMMER

Last night I had a flashback some   thirty years, after I finished school. To lazy, hazy, crazy days of a musical   summer, today in stupor of a fool. After graduation, I searched for my   very own, Mrs. Robinson. Looked for the flower to fill my dreams,   found her not, but had my share of fun. I left the home of Lady Madonna,   with all my siblings at mother's feet. To travel through days of summer,   in search of a man's adolescent treat. There was a house enclosed with queens,   that called to beckon this rising son. In every crevice of that old boarding house,   I out-hustled each of them one by one. Peter and Paul had their proud Mary.   Sonny already cornered long-legged Cher. Tommy and Dickie had smothered Melonie,   with flowers in her dress and golden hair. Around vineyards of Boone's Farm I savored,   sweet grapes of Annie Greensprings. She led me astray to view Fannie Hill,   where she taught me wonderful things.  I shared cake with Eleanor Rigby, dodging   raindrops over McCarther Park Ridge. She left me when I told her about Billie Jo   jumping off some Tallahassee bridge. She stranded me outside of Choctah where   I had a great time with Bobbie Mcgee. Bobbie was no Ruby Tuesday either, because   they both laid all their blame on me. I hitched a ride for the rest of summer   with a sweet flowergirl called Delta Dawn. Sobriety came with autumn's arrival, as I   moved on with my flowers of summer gone.  

Copyright © April 2001 JAMES H SCARBROUGH

Additional Notes:
Just a little reflection into an old man's late teen years, with just a touch of what all that great music meant back in those days.


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