Darena

My wife’s sister Darena who has had a bit of a rough life is the subject of some of my hardcore teasing also. So this poem may have a few of my hardcore moments in it so I can keep her on her toes. Her comebacks are killers so I’ll be on guard for a while.

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Darena

 

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Pam has a sister that her mother named Darena,
A strange name, but better than the Little Rascal’s Farina,
Although there was some resemblance between the two,
Darena was not black so you could tell who was who.

 

 

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Darena had two boys, the first was Billy Don.
A good looking boy for sure and a fine son.
Later she had a second boy named Danny Lee,
And a handsome devil he too turned out to be.

 

 

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She had some problems with her husband Bill,
And separated taking the boys with some ill will.
She toughed it out with the boys for quite a long time
And then met a single neighbor she thought was fine.

 

 

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She married this man named Robert you see,
And made a home in Fritch, Texas, for the family.
There they lived and raised the two young boys
To be two fine young men with lots of poise.

 

 

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They built a cabin in Colorado near the Rio Grande
And joined us in the summers for fun in the highlands.
We rafted and played lots of regular dominos I say.
While drinking cool ones and listening to music play.

 

 

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Darena played games well, but she hated to lose.
She was Roberts partner so she didn’t have to choose,
But often at him she would scream and holler,
And he said “Settle down were not playing for dollars.”

 

 

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Robert was iron worker and often welded zinc,
The fumes from the burning metal, they did stink.
They eventually poisoned him and made him very ill.
Eventually, they did him in and he was then forever stilled.

 

 

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Darena mourned her loss, but kept right on living.
She met a guy named Tom who her time she was giving.
They hit it off and eventually she gave him her hand,
They decided to live like frontiersmen off of the land.

 

 

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They bought guns and buckskins and dressed kind of funny,
He looked like Tom Daniel Boone and she a buckskin bunny.
They had lots of fun and shot lots of those loud bullets.
They didn’t shoot game so they ate store bought pullets.

 

 

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Tom was a guitar player who wrote lots of country songs.
Although they weren’t my favorites, I perhaps listened too long.
He never made it big even though he said he knew Dan Seals.
He drank lots of booze and never got a single record deal.

 

 

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Tom found he had cancer, again Darena had a very sick man.
The Cancer got worse, he died, and a funeral she did plan.
Poor Darena has now buried two husbands in her life span.
I think she’s still trying to find herself another good man.

 

 

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Darena talks to my wife Pam on the phone every day.
She has lots of stuff to say and it’s hard for Pam to get away,
Seems she sometimes worries too much about life’s little things.
Instead of being thankful for the joys that everyday life brings.

 

 

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She has a very smart phone she calls android,
She calls to talk about her painful hemorrhoids.
I sent her my Preparation H to help with the pain.
She said Bill you have hemorrhoids on the brain.

 

 

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Darena is a fine lady and we all love her for sure.
She has had hard times, we’ve helped her endure.
Hang in there girl things are now getting better.
Living with your son Billy Don, the go getter.

 

 

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By Bill

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Thanks for reading Darena,
Bill