Writings & Works by John Jones

Tag: kirksville

Empty

December 2019

[Verse 1]

When did this old house start feeling empty?

Did I lose track of the time?

Its wailing walls call out to meet me

But I still say I’m fine

An Ode to Kirksville Autumns

Yellow to green, skip red, then on to brown

Nothing seems to work right in this town!

Seasons come and go, then come again

And as the leaves on the trees begin to look thin

They are revived, a second, third and fourth fall

Will winter ever come? Is this all

A half-hearted, false-started farce?

You have a nice bottom, too.