Still Captain After All These Years

By Robert Wynne and Jeffrey Williams

Music: "Still Crazy After All These Years" by Paul Simon

I met an old classmate down on Starbase Ten
He seemed surprised to see me, but I just smiled
And we talked about our old ships and had ourselves some beers
I'm still Captain after all these years

Now I'm the kind of man who tends to socialize
I have a brand new girlfriend every day
But I will not make comittments that bind me to one sphere
Still Captain after all these years

My prime directive
Tossed out
Defective
I did it all my own way
I never worry
Why should I?
I always save the day

Now I sit by my window and look at the stars
I've done far too much damage for just one day
But it always works out for the best despite the Admiralty's fears
Still Captain after all these years

Bio:

Robert Wynne ("Doc") is a gentleman rogue and a scholar of truth. He has been, at alternate times, a writer, an editor, a salesman, a teacher, a freelance computer consultant and a charming vagrant.

While herding a sturdy diesel across the highways of life Jeff Williams dreame d of becoming a writer. In between haunting railroad yards he scribbles cryptic notes on slightly-used paper napkins and posts them off to his colaborator, Rob Wynne. They brainstorm these abstruse anagrams into the tales that you've just been reading. And people say the youth of America have no goals in life.

You can E-mail Rob Wynne at: doc@america.net, and Jeff usually answers mails directed to jtwrccc@aol.com.

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