Tag: Commentary
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AVB (the Acoustic Vocal Band) – Part 1 – Memoir Continued
AVB (the Acoustic Vocal Band) As part of my self-therapy, I got together with Guy and his friend, Jim T., who had performed with Guy in the Athens area as “Unknown Soldier” in coffee houses around Ohio University. We also invited my old friend Dale K. in to form a small folk-rock ensemble. We called…
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Black River Mystery
Black River Mystery down in the Black Riverfloodplain not far fromcattails and clumps ofriver-birch, snuggled inwith rag-weed, QueenAnne’s Lace and St. John’sWort sits a square patchof young five and sevenfrond-leaf plantings sixfeet high, approachingharvest strength – perhapsnext week where did they gobig mystery of the floodplaindry patch of ground – fiveand seven frond dream-makers gone…
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Summer’s Almost Gone
This is an older poem I came across while going through my old journals for material to use in my memoir. I wrote this in August of ’83 while sitting in a bus shelter waiting for the number 9. Summer’s Almost Gone August rains are coldThe sky is crying Wind gusts blow me downThe sky…
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A Life in Transition – Memoir Continued
The End of My Tenure at US Steel I was depressed and having a hard time dealing with work. They noticed the change in me and sent me to see a psychologist. He spoke to me for about 10 minutes and started pontificating on how all my problems were related to my relationship with my…
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Lynn – Part 10 – Post-Split Complications – Memoir Continued
Post-Split Complications Once I understood that Lynn had no intention of returning…ever, I went out with a couple of other women a couple of times, but there was no simpatico and no desire nor commitments of any kind from me or them. It was fun and a relief after the frigidity Lynn had demonstrated since…
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Lynn – Part 9 – Lynn and I Split – Memoir Continued
Lynn and I Split The following year, we went to visit Lynn’s dad, brother, and sister in Alexandria, VA. We went down on a long weekend (I was working swingshifts and had longer weekends at roughly 6 week intervals. We drove down, and she wanted to stay for a week or two (she ‘needed’ a…
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Summer’s Last Holiday
Summer’s Last Holiday used to be the summerseason’s first holidayMay-day, still celebratedaround the world onthe first of May celebrates labor’s victoriesof the late 19th and early 20thcenturies over robber baronsand their bankers and lackeysfederal, state, and local our owners bought and manipulatedthe levers of power; moved ourcelebration to season’s endreduced to backyard smokey grillsand a…
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Malabar Farm
Malabar Farm home ot Lewis Bromfield’27 Pulitzer Prize for FictionMalabar Big House, setting forthe infamous weddingof Bogie and Bacall Beta-tested innovativefarming techniquesearly experimentsin contour plowing, croprotation, organic farming guests, influential or notgiven chore-list withmorning meal – nomatter who, mustwork for your supper Malabar State Parkhalfway between Clevelandand Columbus OHLewi’s ghost still walksthe Big House halls…
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Johnny by Sarah Jarosz
Johnny by Sarah Jarosz Johnny’s on the back porchDrinkin’ red wineHe knows that it could beThe very last timeHe raises the glass upTo his lipsAnd wonders How could a boyFrom a little bay townGrow up to be a manFly the whole world roundAnd end back upOn the same damn groundHe started You might not get…
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Lynn – Part 8 – An Extended Vacation – Memoir Continued
My Extended Vacation from US Steel In early June of ‘75, I took 3 of my 5 weeks of extended vacation (my first and only). We decided to take a trip out west. Lynn was interested in Montana. So, that’s the way we went, visiting Bismark, then going south through Yellowstone and Colorado. We spent…
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