If You Think I'm a Loser

I didn’t graduate from high school

nor did I do well in grammar school.

I had labor jobs most of my life.

I’ve lived in cracker boxes filled with cockroaches.

Living in the slums isn’t as bad as it sounds.

Living in the boonies isn’t as bad as it sounds either.

Eating cheap isn’t bad

as long as you know how to cook.

Breaded giblets fried are finger lickin’ good.

If you haven’t tried them you should!

Tripe, tongue, crawdads, and fish heads are delicious as well.

Earning  $130.00 a week , while raising two children, is easier than it seems.

Cookin’ a Thanksgiving dinner on a two burner Coleman stove simpler than you think.

Poachin’ game, to put food on the table, has been a blessing.

Signal handily butchering large whole animal carcasses with nothing more than a curving knife is productive and rewarding.

Falling countless dead standing trees,

cuttin' them into 16" logs,

splittin' them with a hand held maul, 

loading, stacking,

unloading and stacking again upon delivery for $65 a cord is physically over whelming but gratifying.

Retrieving an extra 10 cords,a year, to heat our un-insolated cabin is a warming and satisfying accomplishment.

Accendently cutting into my leg with a over sized chain saw didn’t stop me

even though I had no medical help.

Sometimes beaten and mostly neglected didn’t impede my path.

Velveta cheese on crackers make great appetizers for company.

Out houses and a Porta Potty are a great relief (LOL) and classy too.

So is diggin' a hole in the ground on the side of the dirt road.

Hand washed clothes in a plastic wading pool is a labor of love.

Keeping pack rats out of the house means there are no mice in the home.

No running water makes for greater appreciation for working facets.

Drinking rusty water from re-used milk jugs makes you stronger.

Eating out is cookin' on a camp fire and that makes the food taste better.

Not relyin' on anyone builds character.

Cut off from the world makes you appreciate its’ simple beauty.

Havin’ weeds take over your vehicle for six an’ a half years teaches you to rely on yourself.

So called friends who take sides against you instills the feeling of havin' bin duped by your own sense of self.

Hollerin' like a fish monger’s wife for your children to come runnin' out of the woods and seeing them return is heart warming.

And to stand up all your life gains respect for self.

Almost everything that seems to be simple is really complex.

But if you meet me it’s pretty plain.

Basically, I’m just another hill billy.

If you think I'm a loser then why don't you kill me!

LOL