Come Drink From My Cup: Musings of an East Harlem Poet
A Compilation of Poetry from 1967-2003
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PUN FUN Birds usually have a peck of a good time. Working in a bakery, you can loaf all day and still make a lot of dough. I used to work as a glazier until it got to be a pane. The lumber company execs held a board meeting. Golf players have bad tempers. They easily get teed off. Mechanics can torque about engines all day. Most men have broad views. Sheep owners are generous. They shear what they have. The cemetery was located at a dead end.
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I hope you’ll enjoy these poems. Like wine, life can be bitter-sweet, so come, drink from my cup. Take a small sip and swallow slowly. Let it trickle down deep into your soul.
About the Author
Damon Chandler, Poet, Actor, Stand-up Comic, lived eight of his nine lives as a Helicopter Gunner and Airplane Mechanic, with the United States Marines, and later with Pan American Airlines. The Poet grew up in New York City in the 1950’s and 1960’s – in his words “a veritable smorgasbord of life situations and circumstances – from the very comedic to the most gut-wrenching”. He comments: “Growing up in that magnificent melting-pot greatly influenced my life with all its quirks and foibles.” Come Drink from My Cup – a compilation of poetry written over a period of 40 years – showcases his humor, love of life, devotion to family and passion for the dramatic interlude. Shortly before his death in 2005, he left a copy of his manuscript with his sister, Juanita. In this post-humus publication, his family shares his unique, life-affirming perspective with the world.