Fortunes Fly Poem by Buddy Bee Anthony

not unlike you
I wanna be free
Won't you
show me the deal
In the Big Time.
If you don't have somethin'
better to do
I want more than a license to play
your fool
Spin your fortune's wheel
not live as a motherless child, .
taste, touch, and feel.
Can I borrow a little more of your big time
to heal.
Break into
An easy rhyme,
in the big time
Spin the big wheel.
Show me what's real.
Hit the back roads on,
a Greyhound Bus,
Hook up
with an experienced road partner
to watch my back..
live off the legend
of a lusty golden trail

float our living message
in a bottle out to Sea
whoever finds our stories will discover
our treasured elegy of how we lived and died
And how we let our fortunes fly.

Buddy Bee Anthony

11/30/2022 @6: 58AM Pacific Standard Time