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Tom,

'embrace life while you can, my bro, / in all its many ways'--is worth saying in any riff. Lawrence is still around, quiet, private, but sometimes does the courtesy of saying hi or looking at a new poets manuscript. Mainly lets someone else run the store most of the time. Gregory is gone too soon, though many here still have memories of his kindnesses to them; Jack K. is still practically worshiped by some, though I could never figure out why they singled him out for special adulation. But that's ok. I guess I have may own hero types from this area, like Kenneth Patchen and Kenneth Rexroth...

A ramble like one of yours this also has its place, just to loosen up you language psyche.

Keep at it, everything is experimental in poetry, or it's road-kill,

Salome,

Peter

You been into Johnny's storeroom?

55 Caddie had more of tail light bumps than fins.

In '55 I was twelve and my father had a four-door
fleetwood Caddy. In '55 we called those tail light
bumps "fins" probably due to the fact that no comparitive
"fins" really existed until the 57 plymouth and to a lesser
degre the 57 chrysler and of course our all time fav.
the 57 Chevvy Bel Air which still, because of Fisher Body,
stands proud as one of the great designs of all time.

So, if this poem was picturing Chrysler products in 57
and the Chevvy then I too would call the 55 fleetwood's
"fins" bumps. But the poem is about the era of Howl and
performance clubs, south side of Chicago and intellectual
if not "to the streets" rebellion and I still remmember my
dad shaking his head at those "gd fins on the back of my car.
Hell it might fly tom." I will change it to "bumps" but it loses,
for me, some familial clarity. Thanks Merc. tom

I'd leave "fins intact" in the poem, regardless of what was to be seen in Johnny's storeroom.

Great energy in this poem, and it all hangs together. Deserves to be a hit song lyric.

I do remember that they called 'em fins in 55. I too was 12. I traded my 55 Merc for two 56 Sportsters, both running. I have a 78 Caddie dealers model, a 48 Chev 2 ton, a 51 Simplex Automatic, an 81 950 CB an 07 Yamaha 1100 v star a 41 Taylorcraft 65, a 46 Taylorcraft 65 (oh still have the sporties) 13 horses, all but 4 of them in Mexico on the Two Days along with about 900 pair eating grass like there may be no tomorrow. I sold a 66 Tigre Cub and a 68 TR1 this week. I have A 55 International 1 1/2 Ton dump truck, a bull dozer, a backhoe and a 66 Case 620 wheel tractor, besides the equipment for the Mexi place.
I just, I mean just, last time I saw Mitts I didn't have it, that's how just, (that was last Thursday) bought an 81 T Bird with, count'em 41,000 miles on it. The guy drove it to the golf course twice a week since it was new.

I like toys.
Oh, I take very good care of my grass. I need it next year, and even next month. Most the guys I know do.

I loved that 55 Merc. It looked like it was going fast when
sitting still. Honestly, I liked it better than the Bel Aire
but you just did NOT say something like that around Fisher Body
acolytes and troglidites. lol. I'm going to have to google the 81
T-sparrow because I lost interest in them also after 55 and 56.
But an 81 with 41 can transform one's interest quite abrubtly
and permanently. The 68 TR tweaks my envy however. I loved the
model and the way they drove. My total investment in "automotive
toys" is my red "heart-attack" '92 Turbo MR-2 with seventy-eight
thousand. I bought it three days after my hospitalization and angio
for an unnoticed heart-attack in June of '92. I thought those miles
were pretty impressive but now I'm hangin' my head in shame and shall
not mention my low milege ever again.

Manic-depressive's and grass is redundent and dangerous to children
and people in brightly dressed attire so I just graze with the horses
once in awhile on blue-grass and grain. So far our supply has proven
a genetic warrior of replentishment. I will eat for years to come or
until I decide on another choice to satisfy my craving for a return
to my "summer of love" head. t.

Tom, Here's my response to Terry on my thread. It pertains to how much space you take on the board.

amo,

Peter

Merc,

re: Tom pushing people off. I figure he's old enough to be able to know that he is doing that and that it is not fair to all those who only post once in a while. I guess, Terry, that your mentioning to me is sufficient to motivate me to say something to him. As an anarchist, I'm sure you know how much I hate being anyone else's cop or daddy or conscience, but I will take on the task.

Thanks for stopping by to read the poem.

amo,

Peter