Bobby was a good boyhood friend
when he learned that Bobbys
cancer surgery was a bust Bobby was
39 he sought to remember times they
spent together unfortunately in his
upset he came away with a sense of those times but not particularly memories
which spoke of
his sense of upset
later he remembered Bobbys arc
then eventual favour when he slipped his fetters and dove headlong into the
American antiwar counterculture which encouraged him with a rational State exorcism
and gobs of Sex
the war in Vietnam was beneficial
to American corporations they didnt care
that another countrys weak or unlucky were destroyed
underground newspapers fought
hand to hand combat with straight established rags and beckoned young men to
resist the draft resist the patriotism
that sought to commodify them Hey
GI hey
government-issue
he may have held the tether of
his realised consciousness between his thumb and forefinger longer than his
contemporaries or could read tossed bones that they ignored or picked at
or didnt think to split with
their canines for hidden marrow or understood
grit
he kept to his druthers with
muscular intensity and refused to have his broth diluted
oftimes then he sought Bobby
out his infant-polio classified him
4-F Bobby hadnt sought 4-F like otherspaid
for it like others he rather otherwiseto
be otherwise but he bravely unfortunately
accepted it wasnt to be
seeking Bobby he held out his tether to him Bobby snatched it with a Death grip Man, how can you be so casual? Im not being casual I trust you
he let go Bobby clutched it and stiffened Relax man You got it
no matter how strange the wind
blewwhipping him tugging at him trying
to tear him to pieces to shreds Bobby held on dug in his heels
rather
one heel his left leg wasnt good
when Bobby called
when he arrived in Chicago and
took a cab directly to the hospital Bobby laid in bed holding a helium
balloon Red, you like red best, yeah? Right Bobby he handed him its tether Now its
your turn. I trust you
he didnt let go
Bobby hadnt a choice
Wednesday, 9 6.
93 1416,
Twosday, 12 1. 21
Seals and Crofts Funny Little Man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rwbwt7kRZJE
