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<\/p>\nAnother bad, two-week long cold just ended. Hopefully, this concluded what had become an unending, multi-month spate of bad colds and a case of pneumonia. Feeling blue, I wrote a short piece after a chat with my pal Vic about this devilish winter\u2019s ills that went something like:<\/p>\n
\u201cHey, Vic.”
\n“Yeah, Marlow, what’s happening, man?”
\n“Something’s going on, man.”
\n“Oh man, something’s not right?”
\n“Tell me something, Vic: what ever happened to J W, man?”
\n“Well, he done left us, man.”
\n“He did, Marlow. Didn\u2019t see the doc until too late.”
\n“Boy, he sure could write some crazy stuff over at the Post.”
\n“Yeah, he laid out sneaky word traps, fools would buy \u2018em and fall down in \u2018em dead.”
\n“I used to like his lightening ways and what he said.”<\/p>\n
– Marlow<\/p>\n
PS Perhaps only a hoodoo black cat bone’s gonna fix what ails me.<\/p>\n
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March 2019
\nThis cat\u2019s old bones
\nCoastal Empire<\/p>\n
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Hot baths are good for cats\u2019 aching old bones.<\/p>\n
Feels like this old cat\u2019s almost done and gone, ache\u2019s blackening my bones
\nJust got over the last cold, when another done pierced my bones
\nGot a funny feeling right here, something’s going all wrong<\/p>\n
Felt like crap in the morning, paced the living room till well past midnight
\nSleep don’t last till the morning, pain wracked my bones long into the night
\nCoughing came on strong in the evening, doggone man, it was a fight<\/p>\n
Gonna call up my doctor, he\u2019s a few miles south of town
\nGotta figure out this crazy stuff that’s going on, get this blackness outta this cat\u2019s bones
\nGot a funny feeling right here, something’s going wrong<\/p>\n
My doc treats me like a, well fed old cat at the end of his days
\nYou know my old doc\u2019s good, but I don\u2019t feel like an old cat at the end of his days<\/p>\n
Yeah, I ain\u2019t tired of living and I’ll do what I gotta do, I can still make the plays<\/p>\n
Maybe I need a doc with a black cat bone, oh yeah
\nMaybe I need a hoodoo black cat bone
\nSeems like all the meds I take
\nDon\u2019t fix what is wrong<\/p>\n
You see my doc tried so hard
\nTo fix these colds of mine
\nYou see my doc tried real hard
\nTo end these colds of mine
\nIt seems like the stronger the meds I tried
\nThe more these colds kicked this ass of mine<\/p>\n
Gonna take it up with other docs, get a pulmonologist on the phone
\nNot gonna lay around here living till these old bones feel cold as stone
\nGonna take it up with other docs, get a pulmonologist on the phone<\/p>\n
Can\u2019t lay around in bed, ’cause or else I\u2019m gonna spoil
\nI believe my time ain\u2019t done, despite how these aches make me toil
\nI got a funny feeling right here something inside\u2019s beginning to boil<\/p>\n
Well, this old cat ain\u2019t done and gone, gonna fight this pain in my bones
\nJust got over the last cold, when another done pierced my bones
\nGonna fix these funny feelings right here, gonna fix this thing that\u2019s going all wrong<\/p>\n
Copyright \u00a9 2019 From My Isle Seat
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