AUNT EDIE'S POETRY ~ Chapter 4

Poem #22 "IRONY" What lordly privilege is ours, to leave good food on the plates and hurry off to amuse ourselves, while half the world starving,waits.© March 1932.. © .BEAU GALIEN

....Poem #23 "REMINDER" THIS MUCH IS LEFT NOW OF ALL I REMEMBER: A FEW LITTLE MEMORIES OF TIMES WHEN WE KISSED THIS THEN IS THE BALANCE, THE PAINFUL REMINDER THAT NEVER FOR ANYTHING WOULD I HAVE MISSED.© ©BEAU GALIEN....1933

Poem #25 I Found this little ditty on an old antique toothpick holder that AUNT EDIE had painted as a gift for her Brother and Sister-inlaw, ROY AND LEE. Edith's married name was Goebel. ..................."PICKS"....... Do to an odd chain of circumstances more or less noble Dear Roy and Lee, I've learned to be quite foxy So if you chance to meet someone who's hot at Mrs Goebel, Please let him take his "PICKS" on me by proxy......© signed.....E.G.circa 1950s© Poem # 26 "Remote" There might be just cause for argument between thee and me–– But I've reached a last conclution Wherein we can agree; How lost the man ––in his–– Ah–-shall we say––duplicity––? Who seeks to biuld a fence around a helpless little tree.! ©1933...................BEAU GALIEN Poem #27 "ALIEN" Our worlds are farther apart than the earth and the stars above Yet our hearts beat close –– in unison Foreigh in all ––save love Remote incentivies––linked by our arms welded thus––became one and the same Alien souls–we two–spanning the gulf with our Love––and a name Beau Galien©..................1933 THANKS FOR DROPPING IN. COME BACK AGAIN SOON