a "Tall Tail"? -- a poem for NaPoWriMo 2024 Day Twelve

 

      Jimmie Boy 

 

Jimmie Boy was born an orphan 

In the nursery for newborns 

He was saying Mama, Dadad 

As if he knew was supposed to 

Supposed to have like others 

Others had mothers to feed them 

Daddies to teach the alphabet 

Someone had told him right after 

Right after he was born without  

They'd been killed in car accident 

But 'twas no accident.  Careless 

The other guy had been drinking 

 

The nurse had told him right away 

Jimmie Boy was a fast learner 

Luck, fostered by geniuses 

In school, first grade when he was two 

That didn't work, he knew it all 

All they could teach so had home school 

Graduated when he was ten 

What could, no would, his future hold 

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 - Photo and Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2024, All Rights Reserved 

 - I am linked with NaPoWriMo 2024 Day Twelve, here

    https://www.napowrimo.net/day-twelve-12/ 

    where were presented with an optional prompt idea of writing a "Tall tale".   

    If my poem is tall enough, then I satisfied the prompt?  

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