Old Bones and Dead Coffee Pots
  Something that I oughta know
come to me 'long time ago,
made me drift too far from home;
Great Britain, France, Paris, Rome.
I've seen the world and back again.
There's no place I haven't been,
but to collect me dreams and scattered thoughts
takes old bones and dead coffee pots.

Buried deep in time and sand
the skeletons long left by man,
a his'try of the days gone by
left to rust beneath copper sky.
I read what's etched in tine and bone
and found what I've always known;
to collect my sould and scattered thoughts
takes old bones and dead coffee pots.

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Synopsis
I am an artist, among other things, and I've had my share of art classes. This particular one was in Oxfordshire, England, at the Upper Heyford Air Force Base where my late husband was stationed. It was about the millionth time it seemed that we were having to do a still life with the skull of a cow and an old rusty coffee pot. As I stared at these things, I began to see something entirely different with my mind...in words not images. This vision, if you will, combined with my background, being raised on ranches out in the middle of nowhere in Oklahoma, my solitary childhood, and suddenly the still life took on a whole different meaning.
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