A Hoot and a Half

[couchgrouch]

A Hoot and a HalfBelow a bearclaw moon, camp was like a saloonlittered with whiskey jugs and bootleg jarsand when we passed out, some bear sniffed aroundfound our hootch and bellied up to the baran owl in a tree trunk, watched that bear get drunktrash our tents and scare us from our bootswe learned our lesson good, don't pollute the woodscos old Yogi didn't just give a hoothe gave a hoot and a halfa hoot and a halfwhen we look back nowwe've just gotta laughgood times gone past,they go so fastcrazy days, God weren't theya hoot and a halfa hoot and a halfmy nephew turned sixteen, and I just couldn't thinkwhat a weird kid like him might wanthe was kind of a dork, preferred joy sticks to sportsand he was too young for a honky-tonkbut I didn't buy Gameboys, or computer toysno sir, I took him to Hooter's insteadwell, his mom got mad, said what I did was badbut with a goofy smile he said he hada hoot and a halfa hoot and a halfwhen we look back nowwe've just gotta laughgood times gone past,they go so fastcrazy days, God weren't theya hoot and a halfa hoot and a half(c)2004 Robert George