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Weekly Contest #294
SMARTY PANTS POETLinda Dennis The Smarty Pants Poet had it all wrong. Someone did cry. He said the old man was from New York, but he wasn’t. He was from Arizona and owned a mansion on Lake Tahoe. It was surrounded by clear water and stunning snowcapped mountains. Few people knew about that. At the age of 56, I suppose he could’ve been considered old by some standards. That, too, was an exaggeration in my mind. He had always looked far younger than his years. The article in The New York Times is what led me to the poem on YouTube. Sitting in ...
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