Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 The Musket

In seventeen seventy five

Private John Simpson did fire me.

Battle of Bunker Hill went live,

Revolution now history.

It's said mine was opening shot

That Simpson fired against command.

A later court martial he got,

Only received a reprimand.

And Simpson kept me through the war,

And through the early U.S.A.

Passed down through many Simpsons more,

Still working musket to this day.

In twenty nineteen I got sold

For half a million bucks I'm told.