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Born May 18, 1953; got saved at Truett Memorial BC in Hayesville, NC 1959. On rigged ballot which I did not rig got Most Intellectual class of 71, Gaffney High School. Furman Grad, Sociology major but it was little tougher than Auburn football players had Had three dates with beautiful women the summer of 1978. Did not marry any of em. Never married anybody cause what was available was undesirable and what was desirable was unaffordable. Unlucky in love as they say and even still it is sometimes heartbreaking. Had a Pakistani Jr. Davis Cupper on the Ropes the summer of 84, City Courts, Rome Georgia I've a baby sitter, watched peoples homes while they were away on Vacation. Freelance writer, local consultant, screenwriter, and the best damn substitute teacher of Floyd County Georgia in mid 80's according to an anonymous kid passed me on main street a few years later when I went back to get a sandwich at Schroeders. Had some good moments in Collinsville as well. Ask Casey Mattox at www.clsnet.org if he will be honest about it. I try my best to make it to Bridges BBQ in Shelby NC at least four times a year.

Monday, August 12, 2019

A Poem appropriating the Billy Collins genre/ Riff on Train Dreams

   Okay, I don't embarrass easily but this blog may come back to haunt me. I'm no expert on the poet Billy Collins but like his poem Catholicism. 

    I called the Paul Finebaum show last year or maybe two years ago and read the last sentence of the novella Train Dreams. James Wood likes the book and I do too.

    The last sentence is a long one. If you read it may add merit to my poem

    A Riff on Train Dreams

    Late Night windows rattlin

    Time and the Bama rails

   You pick a title


    The Track was Laid in 1867
     Behind my grandmother's house in Alabama

   And now the chattering gravel
   the quaking rail and ties
   the house shaking panes

   Train Dreams wake me.

    After passing,
    The Reverberations echoing
    Between Lookout and
   the outcropping of Sand

   In that dark quiet I can hear
    Keener and Attalla

    And sometime
    On down past Tuscaloosa
   And the Paul Finebaum Show

   All the way to the Mississippi Line
 

   

   

    

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