Geriatric Nodoze Poem by Roger Gerald Hicks

Do you have a date tonight?
I've got half a dozen
Polly, Betsey, Beth and Mary
Abner, Jacob, Jim, & Harry
We'll have a fine old time tonight
right up to the break of daylight
cause I'm a genealogist
ain't you?
I could barely spell it
back a week or two.

Have you got a date tonight?
I got one times a thousand-
my kin scatter over 8 states
and three centuries, or four
or maybe more, who cares I'm
getting old, and not so bold
to pick them chicks up in
a dark old bar at two
Last call means so little
I laugh, I'm busy working
just another puzzle
piece or two.

Do you have a date tonight?
I'll give you some of mine
I got enough for a boy scout
troupe and for all the guys
in the employment lines.

Mine this little squiggle:
It'll keep you busy way
to long.But say,
if you can learn to spell
it, your a genealogist.
Just to Ancestry
write a check and belly
up boy, what the heck.
That little gal is
round the corner- -

Oops, maybe not.