Mary Was A Little Lamb Poem by Jim Boone

But ‘Mary’s’ gender-name was Jimmy
And everywhere that Jimmy went
Eyes and notions set upon his
Sissy, swishy little girliness
Which didn’t improve with puberty.

Jimmy was a teenage prince(ss)
Who smoked L&M cigarettes
Went to the 'State' Movie Theater
Because the men liked the westerns
They showed, and to fondle him.

Hi ho, hi ho, off to college and
The US Army Jimmy did go
And became a gem-Jim who
Could toe-the-line, fill the bill
And shoot with the best of ‘em.

“Oh Mary”! ! was the response
Jim the pleaser got from many
A trick-o-the-trade fly-by
Boys and men who discovered him
In their Houston midst from 1967
to the let-the-hard-times-roll 1980’s.

Nobody knows for sure what brought
On the breakdown of uncommon
Common sense with the arrival of
The 21st Century and the departure
Of a no longer shock-proof Jimmy/Jim
But a best-from-the-past offered
Caretaking care giving and let
The healing begin, on Galveston Island
Across the bridge from Texas to an
'Islander by choice’ known as ‘Poet Jim’. 2012