Here is a silly poem:
Has-Beens Sooner or later Everyone becomes A Has-Been Old hat Behind the times Yesterday’s news. Have you ever been a Has-Been? Passé? Past your prime? Out of date? Démodé? I’m a Has-Been But I’m happy To have been what I has been.
(Well after I wrote this poem I realized that I had been channeling Emily Dickinson’s 1861 poem (260) “I’m Nobody! Who are you? / Are you – Nobody – too? . . . .)
I love it!
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Thanks, Judy!
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Better to be a “has been” than a “never was.” Good work, Murray. I’d appreciate if you kept me on your news letter list. I don’t usually comment, but I do read your stuff. — ernie
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Thanks, Ernie! That means a lot to me, coming from a “real” (and really great) writer! I don’t know how to sign up people for notification about what I post here, but I’ll look into it!
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Haha. Great Murray. Does that make you a human been?
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Thanks Jeff. Yes, when repeated so much “been” becomes a funny-looking word. I’d rather say that I’ve been a Big Ben!
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