32000 plus

Derrick Walton was 67
He thought "I've died and gone to heaven"
Ever since he can remember
Since '51, was it in May or September?
He had watched a movie or two
Each and everyday, a few
times he did a movie marathon
friends and family grew up and moved on
In camel-colored notebooks, he wrote
A line or two,a plot, perhaps a quote
There in a stone cottage in Wales
He sits and watches An American Tale.
He laughs and cries, and then he
Records on vellum, the number 32503
A record by Guiness, is great enough
But what of the time lost alone without love?