Tag: Commentary
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Anne – Part 5 – Married 1982 – Memoir Continued
Anne and I Get Married 1982 We got married at the Colonnade in Cain Park, Cleveland Heights, OH, by a justice of the peace. It was a much bigger affair than my first wedding. Anne’s family attended, as did many of mine, including my maternal grandmother, who flew in from Boston with Mom’s older sister…
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Premature Death
Spirit vs Form – A Poor Life vs No Life 11/1/83This poem fits into the timeline of the memoir around this point. Chris (my brother) told me of our tragedy last night, the death of my sister Becky’s baby, only 2 hrs old. Time for another reassessment of my views on life, death, and the…
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Youngstown
Youngstown LyricsBy Bruce Springsteen [Verse 1]Here in northeast Ohio, back in 1803James and Dan Heaton found the ore that was lining Yellow CreekThey built a blast furnace here along the shoreAnd they made the cannonballs that helped the Union win the war [Chorus]Here in YoungstownHere in YoungstownMy sweet Jenny, I’m sinking downHere, darling, in Youngstown…
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Annie – Part 4 – Memoir Continued
Annie – Part 4 Annie started going to a Jazz Dance Class and took Kristen with her. So, frequently, Ian and I’d pick them up after their class, and we’d go out to eat. Kristen did continue with the Judo, too, just not as consistently as Ian and me. Both Kristen and Ian became excellent…
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Annie – Part 3 – Memoir Continued
Annie – Part 3 – Pizza Hut Encounter Results in a Judo Commitment A few weeks after school started, Kristen, Ian, Annie, and I went out to eat at Pizza Hut for our ‘payday’ eat-out dinner. While we were there, I noticed an older Japanese couple, Ed and Grace A., sitting at one of the…
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Annie – Part 2 – Memoir Continued
Annie – Part 2 Once Annie had gotten her job at Penton (in the mail-room, from where she rapidly moved up to an assistant editor position over the next year or so), she moved into an apartment on the East Side of Cleveland, a building where her friend, Karen, was also living. Her friend, Lynn…
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Wild Magic
Another old one from the early ’80s… Places it in the same time-window that I’m currently describing in my continuing memoir. Wild Magic I am the wild magicThe promise of oldIn order to articulateI must learn to be bold The entire universeWill dance to my tuneBut first – shed the cacconBehold the sun and moon…
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Blackbird by Paul McCartney
Blackbird by Paul McCartney Blackbird singing in the dead of nightTake these broken wings and learn to flyAll your lifeYou were only waiting for this moment to arise Blackbird singing in the dead of nightTake these sunken eyes and learn to seeAll your lifeYou were only waiting for this moment to be free Blackbird, flyBlackbird,…
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Annie – Part 1 – Memoir Continued
Annie – Part 1 This is a slight backtrack on the timeline with Jubal. I met Anne P. in the winter of ‘77, 6 or 7 months after Lynn left. She was working for the OH State License Bureau that my dad was running out of his carpet store, The Big T. Yes, Dad retired…
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AVB – Part 2 – Memoir Continued
AVB – Part 2 We got the gig at the Ground Round for the following month, every Friday and Saturday for the whole month. That opened up the other Ground Rounds in the greater Cleveland area, plus Warren and Canton, OH. Jubal The band did very well, and we played dinner clubs, concert halls, outdoor…
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