Poetry by Charlie Zender

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Bob on You Grows
for Robert "Austin Powers" Zender, turning seventy but forever young
to the tune of "Anything Goes" by Cole Porter Bob has aged but he's looking swell and hale so let us retell the tale of our favorite ne'er do well; Valley Stream Is about a half world away, From this beautiful mountain dale, In Sutter Creek California. His father worked there before him, and Bob spent forty-four years without boredom, Alarming them at IBM. He rode to work so iconoclastic Hundred percent club was fantastic, heaven knows Where that hair goes? That Harley fits Bob Zender His son John Zender, Not Linda Zender, Nor sisters Zender, Nor Charlie Zender, But every Zender, Loves the sound when it goes; Your granddaughter fair Olivia Loves to come 'round to see ya', everyone knows Bob on you grows.

I-5 & Sutter Creek, California, June, 2001 Irvine, California, May, 2003