Gray haired and wrinkled face and showing the wear of time <br />Old Jimmy the Rhymer is still penning rhyme <br />Of how many thousand he has written he says he has lost count <br />By any standard quite a record amount <br />His friends at the local pub loves the poems he write <br />Some of his work to them he does read and recite <br />And always for him there's a loud hip hooray <br />Good on you there Jimmy for your poem of the day <br />Old Jimmy the rhymer is an amiable bloke <br />He does like his beer and he laughs at a joke <br />His ex wife Maud did leave him a decade ago <br />Who she is with now he does not care or know <br />She gave him an option give up drink and rhyming or live without me <br />With his answer to her the last of her he see.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/old-jimmy-the-rhymer/
