The Broken Down Mind of Joan Maurer: Poems & Monologues from Ashby Ponds
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The Broken Down Mind of Joan Maurer - Joan Maurer
Copyright © 2014 by Joan Maurer.
ISBN: Softcover 978-1-4931-4841-7
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CONTENTS
Preface
POEMS
The Mouse Before Christmas
The Cat And Mouse Game
Yesterday Or It Ain’t Over ’Til It’s Over!
Santa Claus Is Coming To Ashby Ponds
Dear Santa
Keep This To Yourself (A Holiday Toast)
My Valentines Day Massacre
September Song 2
My September Song
The Weight Watcher
Ou Est La Crepe Suzette?
Revelation
MONOLOGUES
Hi There!
Welcome To Ashby Ponds!
Fond Memories
Can You Hear Me Now?
Do You Remember?
Faqs (Frequently Asked Questions)
Older Than Springtime?
They Don’t Write Them Like That Any More!
PREFACE
For the past five years I’ve lived at Ashby Ponds, a very nice retirement community in Northern Virginia. At present we number more than 700 residents, and we’re growing all the time, with new neighborhoods under construction and the unfinished apartments in them already reserved. Here I sing tenor in the Songbirds choral group. We give about eight concerts a year for our fellow residents and friends. The choral director has been kind enough to let me read one of my own poems or monologues at each of these concerts and the audiences have been kind enough to laugh when I’m trying to be funny and to nod sympathetically when I’m trying to be serious. Many people have asked me for copies of these poems and monologues, so I’ve decided to put some of them together in a little book which I’ve titled (with apologies to Bob Newhart): The Broken Down Mind of Joan Maurer. I’d like to dedicate it to the residents and staff of Ashby Ponds who make it fun to grow old.
Enjoy—
Joan
THE MOUSE
BEFORE CHRISTMAS
’Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house
Not a creature was stirring except for one little mouse.
The party was over, the kids had all gone,
I had bolted the door and then turned with a yawn
When I suddenly saw him-sitting there on a chair
And staring at me with a self-assured air.
I gasped and I shuddered and started to shriek
And he answered me back with a small mousy squeak.
I was shaking and quaking—but the mouse was just bored.
Then I suddenly thought of that dangling pull cord.
I ran to the cord and pulled it real hard
Summoning up a security guard.
It was twenty past twelve by the grandfather clock,
When I opened the door at the sound of his knock.
Do you have a problem?
the guard wanted to know,
And I said, ‘‘Yes, I do, indeed, indeed that is so!
There’s a mouse in the house over there on the chair!"
But, of course, when he looked the mouse wasn’t there.
We searched and we searched, all