Dream merchant
for the red man
squand, maiden,
come back from the
formica cracks
to lend a bear
like me
to where I wanna be
in the tetons
in yellows to nf,
down on Stone Mountain Creek
there's a brake
who says wrong turn,
you have much to learn.
I will go with you,
young lady
as you back him up,
sweat that your white boyfriend
won't get upset
and have a jolly good time
and not go bereft

Conservationists,
working men foremen,
Cardinal Newman,
although I haven't read him yet,
nice religious people,
really hard worker,
followers of Aristotle, etc.

They follow Christ closely I bet,
those long haired hippies,
whom I once thought
were a bunch of decadence-
I'm learning lessons after lesson
after the change over.
due to "the revolution"
not that I don't cringe
at the whole thing
finding myself a conservative
oh well,
like I say
change for changes sake
is no good
but maybe there's a reason
behind the whole thing

Mickey Klutts,
Ike Futch,
Billy Shore,
Ed ****,
Yankee farm system prospects
years ago,
Bobby Riscof,
another Yankee prospect,
and an eastern or western
Kentucky basketball player
who was an opponent of the way
back then,
I'm just taunting of clever
names in some sports who
more my fan on them just because
of their clever names.



some people I find to be

*** symbols who knowing
about me from say,
my poetry, you'd find
that I do



Janet Jackson
Steven Seagall
Liam Neeson,
Billy Martin,
Edward Everett Horton,
Donald Trump,
Ocacio-Cortez,
Shawn Robinson,
and finally William Demarest.

abrupt smacks in the laps,
trying to walk alike,
she goes tippy toey,
I've been told I walk like John Wayne,
me wanting to wriggle her elbow,
her wanting to fake stepping in my foot
a wink,
a sigh,
a licking of the hops,
a walk a little along with
each other,
true love-how sweet!

Down the Street,
to the left of the Burger King,
to the right of the McDonald's,
above the Wendy's
just beyond the Culver's,
lies a body
of water,
a lake,
there to try to take
on the way to Boston
beyond Providence,
coming
from Philadelphia and New York.
confused?
that's the East Coast-confusing?

Roast Pork and mashed potatoes
with pork gravy on both,
biscuits and gravy,
chicken and noodles,
beef and noodles,
spaghetti,
roast turkey and mashed potatoes
with turkey gravy on both,
BBQ chicken,
polish sausage
filling tasty
and that'll put hair
on your chest.
good grub,
sure a little fattening
but it'll make you tuff.
smother it with
onions
and watch disappear those bunions
I don't know
whether it's down home
but I'll stop you
from wanting to roam.