A Lack of Appreciation

They will be sorry one of these days.

A Lack of Appreciation

 

By Elton Camp

 

It was on a cold 1940 September morn

That in a big, brick building I was born

 

I must admit, for I know it to be true,

My father never gave the payment due

 

Yet, to that place, a privilege it should be

To have born there one as illustrious as me

 

In later years, when in town, I drove by

Just to tell the place of my birth, “Hi”

 

But finally there came to be the awful day

I passed to find that they had torn it away

 

To flippantly demolish a historical place

Seems to me to be shameful & a disgrace

 

At the very least, how could they dare

Not to place a historical marker out there

 

“In this place was born a scrawny scamp

Who grew up to be known as Elton Camp

 

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[Marie]

This made me laugh...