"Gone Fishin"

Like the many other's of less fortune to have never had the privilege of personally knowing JC I join in adding my appreciation for his life on this earth... Below, I share , what I prefer to be my eventual epitath, on JC's behalf in hopes that it will mean as much to all of those who knew him as it meant to me upon the death of my friend and colleague Dr Fred Barge, it's author...

DrFAS
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?GONE FISHIN?

I?LL SAY IT IN VERSE
WHEN IT?S TIME FOR THE HEARSE
LET MY ASHES BE CAST IN THE WOOD
LET NO PREACHER BEMOAN
OVER WHAT I HAVE SOWN
OR OF THINGS THAT I?VE DONE THAT ARE GOOD
PLEASE DON?T SING A SONG
WITH VERSES REAL LONG
MAKING EVERY ONE THERE SIT AND LISTEN PLAY FOR THEM INSTEAD
FOR I?M REALLY NOT DEAD
THAT GRAND OLD SONG ?GONE FISHIN?

Dr Fred H. Barge
Circa 1960?s