[lit-ideas] Re: Sunday Twofer
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2010 12:09:43 -0700
One
on the opposite side of the earth from the sun
we find the big wide orb in june
plum ridiculed that rhyme
but surely not this
old art the ad man and his wife nay chah
worked long and hard
in their hardscrabble cabin over by arizona
subsisting on cold corned beef white bread and hash
being paid small retainers month by month for consultancy
in cash
focus grouping till their ears bled
discovering way back before the fifties
what we hokey humans prefer
the aston-o-shine-a-matic-bliss
this
Two
they shared the sixteenth the eighteenth the twenty-first birthday
the prom
a lot more in between
e and fuji
new years babies
i lay the facts before you
wishing i knew more
pushing a stroller round the neighborhood one day two decades back
we ran into daniel fujimoto half japanese-american
and his mother
erin of kansas
we tried a babysitting co-op which
didn't work so well
they moved
not far
but we lost touch
in high school suddenly there he was again
now gay
happy to come over
to our girl-crowded house
he went north for college
made what they called
a gesture
we gathered round
he took a job
enrolled at community college
worked
on his facebook page you can see two of them with drinks in martini
glasses
wearing funny hats
smiling for the camera
first of this year
flowers are wilting in this week's heat but
young folk still go out dancing
on thursday
he killed himself
David Ritchie,
Portland, Oregon
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