The Best of Slim Acres

Harold A. Pickett, a.k.a. Slim Acres, was a well-known poet and popular after-dinner speaker from Ohio. Over a period of about 50 years, he published a number of books of his down-home country poetry; his most recent, Eighty After Eighty, was a collection of 80 poems written after he turned 80 years old. Slim was my father, and he passed away on June 24, 2009, at the age of 96. This blog, a weekly update of the best of his poems, is meant as a tribute to his talents.