Public Domain Poem by John Schulte

I am in the public domain
but only as a child;
I am a bloke with a name
who as a man went wild.

As a boy I loved to play with words
and as a man I did just that
I had my whey and I had my curds
I was coming back till the rat-a-tat-tat.

Now I am both a boy and a man
Not two-faced, as I am who I am
Innocence lost for a song and a dance
It's a mind game where life is a chance.

Perchance to dream -
Yoko just screamed.
It's all the same -
I'm still a flame.