This is about a man named Giant Jack,
Tall & strong with skin jet black
Who caught rattlesnakes in a canvas sack
Skinned them down, salted them,
& hung them on a rack
Made them into rattler jerky
for when he needed a snack
By:J.N.R Dutton
Tag: stories
Dan
Dan played Sax in a jazz band
under bright stage lights
and enjoyed the beauty of the Broadway nights
but as years went on, yeah, as that time flew by
He started to re-prioritize,
He met a lovely lady with a fire in her eyes
He wanted to be her husband,
for her to be his wife,
Settle in a small town, raise a family,
& have a normal life
By:J.N.R Dutton
Glide
Mindy skated the winters away
since the earliest part of her life
Even though the bitter cold cut like a knife
She still loved watching the snow fall from the sky
while she’d glide on the ice
To her, it was like a Norman Rockwell
masterpiece
So easy on the eyes
By:J.N.R Dutton
Tokyo
Ty’s bags are all packed, he looks back,
and kisses his wife Stephanie goodbye
he hugs her tight & finally he boards his flight
for business in Tokyo, it breaks his heart to go
Just how much, he didn’t want to show,
but oh, she knows
By:J.N.R Dutton
Sweet Ruby
They laid his sweet Ruby under a live oak,
buried in her favorite red dress & cloak
The day they laid her down to rest, He did his best,
to hold on to the last words that she spoke,
She’d said to him as she’d given him one last kiss:
“I love you now & I always will, I know this loss is a bitter pill,
but rest assured I’ll see you again, & always remember this,
that for forty three years,through ice & fire & raging winds,
you were the man I love & my best friend”
By:J.N.R Dutton
“I’d Do It All Over Again”
A kid packed his bags heavy,
threw them in his Chevy truck
Headed down to Texas,
where people had said he should try his luck
He spent his first months in Fort Worth,
staying w/a good friend of his,
Working days as a dishwasher
& spending his nights
playing gigs,
Being a musician it was a tough row to hoe
but even so, he was glad he made a go of it,
Years later when he’d succeeded,
He said “I’ve got to admit,
If I had to go back, I’d do it all over again”
By:J.N.R Dutton
Honeymoon In Rome
John & Judy spent their honeymoon in Rome
Loved it so much they didn’t want to go home
They loved the Spanish Steps,
& the Colosseum,
It made them think of the Astrodome
By:J.N.R Dutton
Rita (Poem)
One time Rita spent an evening in a barroom,
Where bottomless whiskey flowed
then she stumbled so confused & helpless,
out into the bitter snow,
Thankfully the barman found
her husband’s number in her phone,
Because Rita would have frozen to death
trying to find her own way back home,
When she sobered up the next day,
Rita apologized,
she was thankful to be alive
she never touched another drop of whiskey
for the rest of her life
By:J.N.R Dutton
Silver Ridge
A young man living off the grid in a place called Silver Ridge
He’s an outdoors man & survivalist
On his front door there’s a “no trespassing” sign,
Custom made real fine, shellacked til it shined
he’s had it a long time, It’s carved from the remains
of a chopped down Georgia Pine,
He lives off the land like his granddaddy did
Family tradition,
He’s not alone, he’s got a wife & kids
To some he’s strange, but not to them
Their way of life is just how it’s always been
They wouldn’t trade it in,
they love the freedom of it
By:J.N.R Dutton
Beautiful Charade
This is the story of a man named Max,
& a woman named Jade
& how everything they had was lost
When a terrible line was crossed one day
Never before in all her life
had Jade ever felt so betrayed
Everyone looking from the outside in
bought into the beautiful charade
Thought “what a wonderful couple,
so in love, they’ve got it made”
but all that’s left is ashes,
where there was once a white hot flame
& thousands of memories of yesterdays remain,
She’s got a pillow full of teardrop stains
cause every night they fall like rain,
Love, yeah, only true Love
Will ever ease her pain
By:J.N.R Dutton
