From the Poet Laureate: April 26th (Director’s Cut)

First, the poem – April 26th - as it appeared on January 2nd in From the Poet Laureate:

Woke up, got out of bed, heard a voice, thought it was Ted,
Am I going beserk, or is the Walrus now dead?

He blew his mind out in a car, he didn't notice it till morning,
Let it come as no surprise was he given sufficient warning?
Cause he was hit hard by a Christian who was simply conforming.

It turns out that the above poem which was accurately copied from a typewriter written transcript done by me, likely in the early 80s, is simply wrong. Here is the same poem taken from the original source document written, in pencil, by the poet himself:

Woke up, got of bed, heard a voice, thought it was Ted
Am I going berserk, or is the walrus now dead?
He blew his arm out in a car; he didn’t notice it till morning.
Let it come as no surprise was he given sufficient warning?
Cause he was hit hard by a Christian
Who was simply conforming
To the decadence of alcohol
And now immaterial mourning

The key differences -

1. I transcribed blew his arm out as blew his mind out ... having listened to two many Beatles rescords
2. Both of us mispelled berserk; which I corrected using spellcheck in the revised (but no longer original with this spelling revision)
3. My version as presented on January 2nd was only 5 or 6 lines depending on how you broke it up; it turned out two additional lines were on the back of the penciled original
4. Lastly, I wanted to connect the dots contained in the poem and today's blogpost. It turned out it provides great perspective of the morning after from Chris' point of view: he wakes up, is hungover, feeling guilty?, he thinks he hears my voice, but was I killed?, turns out it was just an arm injury, minor enuff that I really did not notice till the next day, the rest of the poem is harder to explain other than the born again claim of the other driver, the root cause alcohol … both the conforming and mourning references can be understood by only one mind … that’s why he is the Poet Laureate