Sometimes I just Wonder

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Sometimes I Just Wonder
Ramon Piñero 4/16/2005



i sometimes
wonder
what they
mean
when they
talk about
‘the good
‘ol
days’

i sometimes
wonder
exactly
when
those
days
were.

i sometimes
wonder
if they
mean
way
back
when
Beaver
and
Wally
had no
Black
friends.

i sometimes
wonder
if they
mean
back
when
Sherriff
Andy
and little
Opey
would
sit down
to eat
some of
that great
fried chicken
Ain’t Bea
used to
make.

i sometimes
wonder
if it
was when
Laura
would
help
Rob
when he
fell
over
the
ottoman
at the
beginning
of the
Dick Van Dyke
Show.

i sometimes
wonder
(when they
talk about
them good
‘ol days)
if they
mean
the days
when
Bull Conners’
dogs
ruled the day
in Birmingham.

They could
not possibly
mean
the good
‘ol days
when those
three little
girls were
getting ready
for church
and met
God
instead.

i sometimes
wonder
which of
those
days
were the
good
‘ol days.

Was it
when
my mother
had to
work
in their
homes
making their
beds
cleaning
their
toilets
or perhaps
when the
invisble
doorman
(my Dad)
would open
the doors
and hail
them a
cab.

When I
hear about
them
good
‘ol days
sometimes


i just
get
to
wondering.