Tag: history
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Youthful Indiscretions – 1977
Youthful Indiscretions – 1977 – Memoir Memories Depressed after divorceUsed to ride myChopped HondaDown a snake-curvyRoad north Midway into that driveWas a RR crossingAbout twelve feet wideRoad ramped to itOn either sideAbout 45 degreesAnd maybe fourFeet high Used to lay into the curvesKnees nearly scrapingThe pavement as ISlalomed byAs fast as I couldCoax my rideTried…
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When I Was Young – A Memoir Memory
When I Was Young – A Memoir Memory As a young manI went to seeWhat lay beyondOur one-horse town’sCity streetsAnd the outlyingNorth coast trees Hitchhiked to theSeaboard eastNew York CityWhere theMonsters feastAnd skylineGleams Spent some timeIn a ‘hippie commune’Living off tips from buskingIn Washington SquareAnd a biker barI took my nightlyMeal there Decided theCommune life…
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Jerry Lee Lewis’s 62nd Birthday Party – Memoir Addendum
Jerry Lee Lewis’s 62nd Birthday Party – Memoir Addendum In late September, 1997, I took my last vacation from Kinetico (didn’t know it would be my last at the time…), where I’d worked since ‘92 as a technical writer of manuals, proposals, and the like for their industrial water purification and reverse osmosis business (mostly…
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The Go-Go Bar – Memoir Addendum
The Go-Go Bar Hey lady dancin’ on the barCan’t help but wonderWho you are Sippin’ a beerWatching your reflectionsSway in the mirror Other drinkers watchin’Your sways to the musicHeads are bobbin’ Your expression unawareFreely groovin’Like you’re not really there As I fall under your spellCan’t help reactin’While passions swell Hey lady dancin’ on the barCan’t…
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One Trippy Night In Ann Arbor
Digging deep into my past to pull out an incident recorded in my memoir. It happened this time of year while I was living in Ann Arbor, 1968… I was walking home after a party where I’d dropped acid during the festivities. The rush was over, and I was in the melow stage, and all…
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Colors Before My Eyes
Colors Before My Eyes Purples and greensRoll up before myClosed eyesAlong with scenes From my idioticRomanticSometimes pedanticForgotten memories Too many timesSmashed out of meBy brass-knuckledReality Only rememberedIn quiet timesWith my ancientEyes closed –LE – 9/6/25
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Memoir Addendum – Old Symptoms Of Bronchitis Mostly Gone
Memoir Addendum – Old Symptoms Of Bronchitis Mostly Gone Spent most of my formative yearsTill the end of my first short marriageIn and around the glittering miasmaOf a small steel mill townAt the mouth of the Black RiverOn Lake Erie’s southern shore Walking home in the darkAfter late orchestra rehearsalsOr Judo classes and the likeThe…
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Rest In This Season Of Life
This is a prompt from one of my journals: What does rest look like for me in this season of life? It looks like rest at any other time and season, mainly doing one thing at a time, along with listening to whatever music eases my mind at any given time… gentle movement (exercise, like…
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Memoir Addendum – Current Insights
Memoir Addendum – Current Insights I was able to climb out of the chrysalis of my early conditioning (religious and cultural mythologies) in my teen years and early adulthood. But I was usually filled with indecision and could easily fall back into it with the right incentives, like my first wife. She gave me no…
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One Of Life’s Great Ironies
One Of Life’s Great Ironies – At Least For Me Youth spent in aStrict authoritarian homeDad was king of his castleWithout a crown Mom was authoritarian, tooOf the religiousSouthern Baptist hueCorporal punishment, the go-to As I matured and opened my mindDad blamed the schools for myGrowing humanistic viewsThough my organizing thoughtsCame straight from the family…
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