tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25754765401518516222024-03-13T00:24:13.939-07:00The Dirt Worker’s JournalJason E. Hodgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05254935477207190012noreply@blogger.comBlogger358125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2575476540151851622.post-54071397659317999322023-03-18T08:41:00.000-07:002023-03-18T08:41:03.280-07:00Jason E. Hodges Self Portrait<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLYOcr3bjWdp290CGsCJoSAZt3j3x7rS7srdH3nitUCDbrz-xLldeow7jC1EmJtUspfLz0JEFmnZkFINx5CFKyerlJDdzylp26ZZS69NKTa5Ig2RInHwxsLW_z5MKkTpVfa_C9wsateoaKGCh3L39jcI_aXn9cFfud4sWohmvFBnv3bz6yIPOeVsbefQ/s930/Self.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="930" data-original-width="749" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLYOcr3bjWdp290CGsCJoSAZt3j3x7rS7srdH3nitUCDbrz-xLldeow7jC1EmJtUspfLz0JEFmnZkFINx5CFKyerlJDdzylp26ZZS69NKTa5Ig2RInHwxsLW_z5MKkTpVfa_C9wsateoaKGCh3L39jcI_aXn9cFfud4sWohmvFBnv3bz6yIPOeVsbefQ/w516-h640/Self.jpg" width="516" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Jason E. Hodgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05254935477207190012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2575476540151851622.post-64214074844517801832023-03-18T08:31:00.000-07:002023-03-18T08:31:39.086-07:00Frida Kahlo<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxgEotJiZcKDF_24U_sVqlFLdPxx-Nug1BX-m4nDSqOZD0I4I69D0hk2plf0S4ib5E8J2RPhjJiSgbQkT7J5UEl3nJWkkRRaCcAgFrDNp60YBq2VQ4JwEOhStHXhGblI52qEERVHjSD3v4vZDCkn9sou3KLb5k9DZTMHKOYsFOrR8A6h-WaNrAdBXa1Q/s3663/Frida.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3663" data-original-width="2931" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxgEotJiZcKDF_24U_sVqlFLdPxx-Nug1BX-m4nDSqOZD0I4I69D0hk2plf0S4ib5E8J2RPhjJiSgbQkT7J5UEl3nJWkkRRaCcAgFrDNp60YBq2VQ4JwEOhStHXhGblI52qEERVHjSD3v4vZDCkn9sou3KLb5k9DZTMHKOYsFOrR8A6h-WaNrAdBXa1Q/w512-h640/Frida.JPG" width="512" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Jason E. Hodgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05254935477207190012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2575476540151851622.post-36438506064003274432019-07-18T07:29:00.000-07:002019-07-18T07:31:16.120-07:00Meeting folks<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">I met these folks from the television show Pitbulls And Parolees a while back. Good people doing good things.</span><br />
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><br />Jason E. Hodgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05254935477207190012noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2575476540151851622.post-744282351642005502019-03-02T03:25:00.000-08:002019-03-02T03:25:02.489-08:00Joan Jett's Guitar<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Jason E. Hodgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05254935477207190012noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2575476540151851622.post-50556065924052365182019-02-01T16:14:00.000-08:002019-02-04T15:58:46.458-08:00Maggie<br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">I ran into
Maggie on 43rd Street today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">We were both
headed down the same</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">hot endless
sidewalk that seems to be everywhere</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">in
Gainesville this time of year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">White cotton
clouds drifted above</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">as the sun
cooked everything below.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">“Hey Jason,”
She said with a smile. “Long time no see.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">“For sure,”
I replied.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">I watched
her smile fade and her eyes grow a little more serious.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">“I’m sorry
about Ellis. I know you two were close.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">Ellis
Amburn’s smiling face raced through my mind. “Yeah, I’ll miss him.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">“His stories
of the times he spent with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">Susan
Sontag, Anais Nin, Edie Sedgwick,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">and so many
more were incredible to hear.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">“I bet,”
Maggie said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">“Most of all
I’ll miss his friendship.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">“I know you
will.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">We began to
walk.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">She glanced
at my journal. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">It was
cradled in my left hand.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">With each
step it swung like a pendulum by my side.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">“What have
you been working on recently?” she said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">“I’m trying
to put something together about the past.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">Her brow
lifted. “Your past?” </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">“Like a poem
or something?” her eyes now widened.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">I sighed.
“Yeah something like that.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">Maggie
smiled. “I’ve always liked the way you see the world.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">“Through the
eyes of a poet I guess?” I said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">“Jason
you’re more than a poet. I’ve never liked the title poet for you anyways. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">You’re more
in the thick of it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">You give us
the scraped knees and blackened eyes of the world.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">I chuckled a
little. “So true my friend.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">Maggie
stopped and turned toward me. “Remember Bob?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">“Irish Bob?”
I said. “How could I forget?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">“What was
wrong with that guy?” Maggie laughed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">“What was
right with him? Is the better question,” I said. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">“Remember
the stories of Bob shooting rats </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">with his
pistol behind the pub downtown?” Maggie said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">“I remember.
I’ve heard the stories of Irish Bob</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">and seen the
stories in real time,” I said. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">“Being a
Seal in Vietnam kinda made Bob a little off.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">But hey, a
little off isn’t all bad.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">“Remember
that time the two brothers and you </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">got their jeep
stuck on the train tracks?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">“Yeah Maggie
Girl, I remember. It was freezing that night.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">We slept by
the tracks till morning. It was miserable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">I woke up
and walked to</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">a friend’s
house to get help to push us off</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">before the 8
am train came through.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">Maggie
glanced my way. “Yeah, that would’ve been bad.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">“Remember
that late seventy’s Vega </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">With a 350
motor stuffed inside?” she said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">“I remember
that beast. At 110 mph the car felt like</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">it was
floating. It had no seatbelts but that</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">didn’t
matter much at those speeds.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">We walked a
bit more. The humidity turned the air into a blanket of moist hell. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">Cicadas
called loudly all around us like an insect orchestra begging for rain.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">Maggie
pulled out her phone and checked the temperature, “97 degrees so far.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">Putting her
phone away she asked, “Remember when you were grazed by a bullet?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">“I do. It
went right across my left hip. A little trickle of blood stained my shirt.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">Maggie slid
a cigarette from her pack. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">She flamed
its end.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">“Jason, you
remember the Gainesville Mall? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">That was the
first place I saw an escalator.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">I would
always jump onto the first step and off the last.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">I was sure
that thing would suck me under.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">“That’s
funny. I thought the same thing.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">Maggie’s
voice climbed in volume as she reminisced some more. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">“It seemed
every time we went to the mall </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">there were
rumors that Tom Petty </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">had been
seen walking around the same hallways that day.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">I laughed,
“Yeah, I remember.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">“Remember
all the good times at The Jonesville Ramp?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">I can’t
believe it was in your back yard.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">“Believe it,
Maggie Girl. I rode with the best back then.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">They were
real pioneers in the world of skateboarding.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">Mike
Frazier, Sam and Donny Myhre, Monty Nolder, Billy Rohan,</span></div>
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Chris Baucom, and many more,” I said thinking of all the folks I’ve </span></div>
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over the last thirty something years.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">“Jason,
wasn’t a movie filmed there that had Tony Hawk in it?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">“Yes, it
was. Mike Frazier’s part in Powell Peralta Eight</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">was filmed at
my home on the Jonesville Ramp. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">Tony Hawk
also has a part later in the film.”</span></div>
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approached Archer Road. </span></div>
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pulled hard on her smoke. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">Its end
glowed bright even in the sunlight of midday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">She exhaled,
“Remember the Hang On Sloopy guy?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">“I do. Bobby
Peterson. He played with The McCoys.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">“That song
was their big hit in the 1960s,” I said.</span></div>
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out her cigarette then placed its butt</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">in her back
pocket.</span></div>
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turned toward </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">me wearing a
half smile, “I hate litter.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">“Me too,
Maggie girl.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">We walked a
few more blocks. Maggie was quiet for a bit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">Then spoke
as we were almost at the intersection, “Remember Harry Crews?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">“Yes, my
friend. I’ll never forget that day!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">We came to
the end of the sidewalk.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">“This is my
stop,” I said. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">“I’ve got to
pick up my truck from the mechanic.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">“Yeah, I’ve
got to get back to work.” She smiled.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">“Take care
of yourself, Maggie.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">“You do the
same.”</span></div>
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and walked off into the blazing afternoon.</span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 106%; margin: 0px;">Joan Jett once said, “My guitar
is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am.” It’s easy to see
and hear this in Dani Wilde’s music. The feeling in her voice along with her emotion-filled
guitar playing is a breath of fresh air in the music world today. She’s opened
for Johnny Winter, Foreigner, Journey, and has collaborated with Samantha Fish.
Dani Wilde is a powerhouse in the Blues world today. She is one of my favorite
musicians and someone I believe is making an impact in the art of the Blues.</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 106%; margin: 0px;">Yes,
although I love all music. I was born in the mid 80s and so pop artists like
Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston really inspired me to become a singer. I
also love country music and Americana- artists like Lyle Lovett and Patty
Griffin. And I really love soul music and Motown- Al Green, Smokie Robinson
etc. But I was brought up being taken to lots of blues gigs and festivals. I
heard lots of John Lee Hooker and Howling Wolf and Muddy Waters on my dad's
hifi at home. When I saw Susan Tedeschi and Sue Foley performing live in the
early 2000's I knew that was what I wanted to do. By 2007 I had signed to Ruf Records
and was on the same label as some of my heroes Sue Foley, and Eric Bibb. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 106%; margin: 0px;"><b>I’ve noticed many of the guitar
players from England don’t use a pick when they play. Starting out, was it a
cultural thing for you to play this way or were you looking for a warmer sound
that fingerpicking gives you?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 106%; margin: 0px;">Neither,
when I was 11, I picked up my brother's acoustic guitar and started to figure
out chords and songs. I didn't aspire to be a great guitarist. I wanted to
accompany myself singing my favourite songs and to be a songwriter. I started
out playing solo gigs in local pubs when I was 13 playing mostly originals and
Bob Dylan covers. There were no plectrums in my house nor any other musicians
to offer me one, and so I played with fingers and my own style developed. When
I was 15 I met bluesman Louisiana Red who also played finger style guitar and
he encouraged me to keep playing like this and taught me a thing or two. When I
gigged with Girls with guitars, I used a pick occasionally, and when playing
back up guitar on Samantha's songs which requires a harder and more heavy rock
tone than my own material :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 106%; margin: 0px;"><b>If it were possible and you could
cover any song with the original artist singing along with you, what would it
be?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 106%; margin: 0px;">This is such
a hard question to answer. In regards to living artists, I would love to work
with Van Morrison. I love all of his songs. I play "It stoned me" in
my love set. I’d love to sing Tupelo Honey with him. I would've loved to have
performed with John Lee Hooker when he was alive... Boom boom boom or Dimples.
I love everything about John Lee. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 106%; margin: 0px;"><b>I read you opened for Johnny Winter. I
saw him play in 1994 and he put on a flawless performance. How was it to meet
and open for such a legend in the Blues world?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 106%; margin: 0px;">It was a
dream come true. It was at BB Kings club in Times Square NYC. It meant a lot to
me. A week after that show I bumped into Johnny and his band again at a
festival in Spain and we opened for them again. They were kind to me… really
down to earth yet super talented guys. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 106%; margin: 0px;"><b>Could you tell us a little about your
humanitarian work?</b><span style="margin: 0px;"><b> </b> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 106%; margin: 0px;">Yes, I have
visited Kenya many times and have been deeply saddened by the horiffic poverty
that children have to endure in the slum communities. On my trips I worked with
a wonderful charity called Moving Mountains to build classrooms and provide
education and protection for the most vulnerable and poor children. I also
fundraise to help Toto Love Orphanage in Embu Kenya. The orphans there have
HIV. Some of the kids appear healthy and are doing well in school. Others are
clearly very sick. The money we raise at my concerts helps to provide
medicine and to cover hospital fees and food for the children. Ruth Ndwiga who
runs the orphanage is a wonderful lady who works so hard to keep the orphans
safe and loved. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 106%; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;"><b>What have you
been working on lately, and what would you like for the reader to check out?</b></span><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 106%; margin: 0px;">I have an
album out entitled Live At Brighton Road which was released on Vizztone
Records. The album is half electric and half acoustic showcasing the two sides
of my music. It can be bought on vinyl and Cd/Dvd. My friend, filmmaker Philip
James shot a beautiful video of our live in the studio performances and a video
interview with me to accompany the audio recordings. I've recently been on tour
in Europe promoting the record. I'm a mum now. I have a beautiful little girl
called Poppy, and I took her out on the road with me. It was fantastic
fun. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 106%; margin: 0px;">I also have
a new single out. A cover of Joni Mitchell's Case of You recorded with my
brother Will Wilde on harp. Will and I tour as an acoustic duo called The
Wilde's when we are not touring separately with our electric bands. You can
find the music video on YouTube.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Along with an incredible voice, Chloe Feoranzo plays the
clarinet and saxophone. She pulls you back in time with her music. As you
listen you’ll feel like you’re sitting in a 1920s speakeasy enjoying a night on
the town. She’s put hard work and dedication into her craft and it shows. Every
note, whether voice or instrument, shines bright in her performance. Truly a
modern-day link to the past, yet a gem in our musical present. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Chloe studied under Jazz great Charles McPherson. A
friend of mine’s father, Mario Rivera was also a Jazz great. He played with
Tito Puente for many years. He recorded an album with Dizzy Gillespie, <i>Afro
Cuban Jazz Moods</i> in 1975. Over the years, I’ve enjoyed hearing stories from
my friend Mario about his father and that magical time gone by. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Chloe’s music is reflective of this
era.</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Music from the past is always a treat to look back on and
take in. All of its emotion captured in the recordings of the musicians from
years ago. But there’s something special when you see the past alive and well
here in present day. Chloe Feoranzo is that present day musician making a
lasting mark on the Jazz world.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">This is </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Chloe
Feoranzo.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">How
old were you when you started playing clarinet and saxophone?</span></strong><br />
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I
was about 9 or 10 when I first started playing the saxophone in Elementary
school band. I was around 12 or 13 when my middle school teacher needed an
extra clarinet player and I said why not? Haha.<br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Have
you always been drawn to Jazz as a musician?</span></strong><br />
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I
definitely grew up around Jazz even before starting to play an instrument. My
parents used to swing dance and loved to listen to the songs they heard in
classes at home so I got a taste of it then. After starting music, I was drawn
to the older styles of jazz after hearing it live for the first time at the San
Diego Jazz Fest. So yes, but I’ve also been drawn to other forms of music as
well such as classical, Brazilian choro, old R&B, Irish music, and even
pop.<br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Which
artists inspired you when you were starting out?</span></strong><br />
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lot of my inspiration came from the musicians I heard growing up live in town
(I grew up in San Diego), especially the ones that would take me under their
wing such as Ron Hockett, Chris Klich, Zzymzzy Quartet, Charles McPherson and
practically any group that went to the Traditional Jazz Festivals. Recording
wise I loved Billie Holliday, Peanuts Hucko, Lester Young, Gerry Mulligan, Ella
Fitzgerald, Louis Prima, Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman... I could go on.<br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">I
watched a clip of you playing on “The David Letterman Show.” How was the
experience for you?</span></strong><br />
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It
was a pretty crazy day! A few of the highlights for me was finding out they
kept TV studios extremely cold so no one sweats on television, so I basically
walked around with my travel blanket for most of the time. Another is right
before we did our take (and we were really only allowed to do one even though
it wasn't live) Paul Shaffer sees me with my clarinet and goes "Oh! A
clarinet!" and proceeds to play a polka beat. To which I then, of course,
start playing some vaguely polka-like improvisation and we just jammed on this
improv polka for a little bit before the TVs were filming. Lastly, right as we
ended our take and Letterman walks off I look down on my mouthpiece to see my
reed had completely shifted almost off the mouthpiece, which thankfully waited
until after the take to do so or else there would have been some serious
squeaks haha. In my excitement to perform I had forgotten to tighten my
ligature enough (the thing that holds the reed in place) and luckily the reed
cooperated. Whoops.<br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">If
it were possible and you could cover any song with the original artist singing
along with you, what would it be?</span></strong><br />
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I'll
Be Seeing You - Billie Holliday version. Her version is so hauntingly beautiful
and perfectly captures the message of the song.<br />
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have you been working on lately and what would you like for the reader to check
out? </span></strong></div>
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I
have an all women traditional jazz group called the Shake 'Em Up Jazz Band that
is based in New Orleans, also where I currently live. Our newest album called
'A Women's Place Is In The Groove' is an album dedicated to women composers of
the 1920s-30s. We have done a couple overseas tours and various festivals
around the country. You can find more about the band on our Facebook page
( <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ShakeEmUpJazzBand/" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none;">https://www.facebook.com/ShakeEmUpJazzBand/</span></a>) and at our website(<a href="http://www.shakeemupjazzband.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none;">www.shakeemupjazzband.com</span></a>) I really love these ladies
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Like Loretta
Lynn and Neil Young, Lilly Hiatt sings from the heart. Her lyrics and style are
reminiscent of the greats I grew up listening to in The Seventies. Yet she also
has that rocking edge that rolls along in rhythmic chords much like the bands I
loved in The Nineties. Lilly is someone special, someone whose spirit soars
high when she picks up her guitar and sings. Truly an original.</span><br />
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first time I heard her, I was enthralled with her music. The more I heard the
more I wanted to hear. As time went by I would find myself singing her songs as
I went through my day. So, after work one afternoon I messaged her and asked if
she would do an interview. I put my phone down and collapsed onto the couch. I
started to drink some coffee and watch TV. A short time passed and my phone
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songs today do you reflect back on the songwriters and storytellers you first
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do. I remember Prince being a soundtrack early on. Purple
Rain. That stuck with me, as did Neil Young's Harvest Moon. Liz
Phair's Whipsmart, that's what my mom jammed when she was letting loose. They
all crept in and influenced me amongst the many things I discovered on my
own, I think also just seeing the shows with all kinds of
musicians. Ya know my dad toured with Hootie and the Blowfish, he toured
with BB King, Jackson Brown...they all became a part of my musical
journey. My brother was obsessed with Slayer and hip hop, my sister loved
Weezer and the Spice Girls. Everyone was bringing something to the table.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Why thank
you. Well, I could write a book on it, but I won't. At least not
now. It's hard to reduce it to just a few folks, but big writer
influences I'd say would be Liz Phair, Bob Dylan, Lauryn Hill, Neil Young, Eddie
Vedder, Prince, Conor Oberst, Lucinda Williams and my dad of course. But,
different eras have occurred and I am an avid fan of a lot of music.</span></div>
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Lee Tasjan and “The Beatles” with Margo Price. If it were possible and you
could cover any song with the original artist singing along with you, what
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">See, I am
already stressed I left John Lennon out of that last question haha! Well, I
want to sing "Daughter" with Eddie Vedder. I plan on it. I also badly
want Cardi B to sample a song of mine, and I would happily sing that with
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">I knew them
both, and liked them very much as people. When Michael was suggested to
me as a possible producer, I was intrigued and began a musical conversation
with him. We vibed quickly and I knew he would push boundaries with me
without pushing my buttons. I like working with people that are willing
to go to the edge and beyond, and he is! Yet with such a chill and respectful
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">I am writing
up a storm planning to make another record. Excited to be in a creative
haze at the moment. Next up tour wise is a fun run with Margo Price that
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Colleen Rennison is a singer,
songwriter, and actress. She’s worked in films with Bruce Willis, Michelle
Pfeiffer, Minnie Driver, Tom Arnold, Rachael Leigh Cook, Kathleen Turner, Mila
Kunis, and many more. None of this I knew when I first heard her voice. A voice
that is simply stunning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">I stumbled across Colleen on YouTube.
Her band “No Sinner” was under recommendations. My first thought was, what a
cool name. I found out later it’s her last name “Rennison” spelled backwards. I
clicked the video and the music began. Within the first few notes I could hear
those Delta Blues, muddy and smeared with life dripping from the guitarist’s
amplifier. Then came Colleen’s voice soulful, strong, and raw with emotion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">I sat watching song after song, blown
away at the sound of an old soul singing in this almost forgotten style. I say
almost, because in our overstimulated world flooded with perfectly polished
music, real talent is hard to find. So when you run across someone of Colleen’s
caliber you instantly take notice. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The next morning waiting to clock in
for work I looked her up on the web. I followed her and within a few hours she
followed me back. A few weeks passed and I decided to reach out and see if she
would do an interview. The next day she wrote back and agreed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">I definitely go back into old journals
if I manage to keep my hands on them. Sometimes it’s painful but it’s worth it.
When you’re in the throes of a feeling you might not be in the position to sit
down and write a song about it, but to jot down something is key, even if it
doesn’t seem significant at the time it can be very valuable in the future when
you have time to reflect and write.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">I’ve been riding for about 3 years
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">I started riding to clear my head, but
turns out it just spins in circles like your wheels. When I’ve got nothing but
my thoughts sometimes they’ll start to sound like a song and end up writing
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">I just came back to Vancouver from
Austin for The Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) where a film I was
in called “Kingsway” showed. It’s a dark comedy about a dysfunctional family
where I play Lori, a pregnant singer who rides a motorcycle (the only real
stretch was on my T-shirt for that one). I wrote a few songs that made it into
the film, and I’m hoping to flesh them out into an EP soon. Also, Colin James
just released his new album and I’ve got some backup vocals on it. You should
check it out! It’s a great album!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Gave me my first axe </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">When I was 8 years of age</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">39 years later</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">It’s my go to tool</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I’ve honed my skills behind the axe</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">And</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Honed its blade!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Its weight</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Its length</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Its handle</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Which soaks in my sweat</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">And</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sometimes my blood</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Becomes a part of me</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">And me of it!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">A symphony of</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Cutting, slicing, and chopping</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Me, the conductor </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">It, the instrument </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Axe and Cutting Mattock</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Have been in my hands</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">My father’s hands</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">His father’s hands </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">His father’s, father’s hands</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So on and so forth</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">All the way back to Ireland, Scotland, and Wales</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Back to Scandinavia and The Vikings </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The axe is deeply rooted in my blood</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">My DNA</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Everything that is me</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">When it comes to working outdoors</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">One day</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">When I’m old</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">And my hands too feeble</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Too crippled </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">To hold my axe </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I’ll look back on the lands I’ve shaped</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The dirt I’ve churned</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The trees I’ve fallen</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">And remember </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">My days</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Behind the axe</span></div>
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span>Jason E. Hodgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05254935477207190012noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2575476540151851622.post-52019952610439312452018-05-28T17:07:00.000-07:002018-05-28T17:07:03.565-07:00Open Letter to Brandon Graham
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">Time slips by or maybe </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">I’m slipping as time goes by me?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">Not every day is a drag </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">But it seems the ones </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">That involve passing by the TV </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">When the news is on</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">Can really bring me down</span></div>
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of the woods </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">Like a raccoon named Sugar </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">She’s so large</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">So big </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">I believe from </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">Eating out of the ice cream store’s
dumpster</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">Down the street from my home</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">She waddles from the weeds and peers
at me with </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">Dark curious eyes </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">Then slowly makes her way back into
the brush</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">There’s also a deer I’ve named Brownie
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">Her husband Buck Owens and their child
Jane Fawn-Da </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">Also come to say hello</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">For</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">He is always alone</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">And a rabbit named Tag</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">For</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">It runs to me then back away</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">Then back to me then away it runs</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">They all seem to be so much more
entertaining</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">Than anything on the tube…</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">And Brandon</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">I still wonder how your writing is
going from time to time?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">I wonder about all of my friends </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">Who practice the craft of words </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">Along with my own thoughts of what
next to write?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">Lizzy Worth is still doing her thing
above us</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">In that far away land called Canada </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">I’m sure she still scribbles words </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">Her cat Plumb </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">Most likely meowing in circles around
her</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">As she pulls words from the air like
magic</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">And arranges them on paper </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">Illian Rain is up there too</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">Her cat’s named Leroy </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">I’m sure he meows </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">I’m just not sure how much it affects
her writing</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">Whatever the case</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">Illian and Lizzy are such strong
voices</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">From the land of Canada</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">And Brandon</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">I still talk to Lizzie Woodham from
across the sea</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">Emailing words through wires way over
there</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">She’s patient with me and my questions</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">About her writing</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">About the places and things that make
up Europe</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">From Scottish Snow Flakes </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">To</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">The Irish Sea </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">To </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">The smells and sounds of the streets
of Soho</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">But most of all she listens to me and
my wandering mind</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">What a friend I have in her!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">And Brandon </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">Mallory Smart is still out there
somewhere</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">The windy city I believe</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">Or maybe the city of wind?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">She loves coffee, you know?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">She writes and publishes </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">Publishes and writes</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">Words swirl around her mind</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">Like a cyclone</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">At least that’s what I believe they
do!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">When I met Mallory</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">Another person that loves “The Beats” </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">It gave me hope for the future </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">And Brandon</span></div>
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</div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">I still think of your encounter with
Burroughs</span></div>
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</div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">It still makes me smile</span></div>
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</div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">And Brandon </span></div>
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</div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">I still wonder if we, us, and our
friends in writing</span></div>
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</div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">Will ever have a name associated with
our work?</span></div>
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</div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">With our lives?</span></div>
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</div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">Like “The Beats” or “The Lost
Generation”</span></div>
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</div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">I’ve pondered this question for years?</span></div>
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</div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">So, I will now take it upon myself to
name us</span></div>
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</div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">“The Holding Generation” </span></div>
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</div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">There! I’ve coined it!!!</span></div>
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</div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">For </span></div>
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</div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">I feel we are holding onto hope</span></div>
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</div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">Holding onto anything </span></div>
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</div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">That tomorrow will be better than
today</span></div>
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</div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">That moms and dads will be able to
hold</span></div>
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</div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">Their children after a day at school</span></div>
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</div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">That the kids will carry books </span></div>
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</div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">Instead of bulletproof jackets</span></div>
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</div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">Holding onto the thought </span></div>
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</div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">That maybe just maybe </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
</div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">People will stop killing each other</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
</div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">Holding onto the idea that society </span></div>
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</div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">Will somehow someway get their act
together…</span></div>
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</div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">But most of all</span></div>
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</div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">Holding on </span></div>
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</div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">While we continue to write and create
art</span></div>
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</div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 105%; margin: 0px;">That’s all I can do anymore</span></div>
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</div>
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<br />Jason E. Hodgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05254935477207190012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2575476540151851622.post-69773728362903745102018-04-22T11:50:00.002-07:002018-04-22T12:02:15.247-07:00Riverview<br />
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Between Belbedere and Clyed</span></span></div>
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</div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">The last days of his youth</span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
</div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Were coming to an end</span></span></div>
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</div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">He was born into a world of
hard labor </span></span></div>
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</div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">The plow, the axe, and the crosscut
saw</span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
</div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Were the tools by which </span></span></div>
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</div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">His family carved out a living</span></span></div>
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</div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">They migrated wherever</span></span></div>
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</div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">The next income could be made </span></span></div>
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</div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">From</span></span></div>
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</div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">The North Florida farmlands of
Hilliard</span></span></div>
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</div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">To the snake-infested
waterways</span></span></div>
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</div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Of the Okefenokee Swamp</span></span></div>
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</div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Cutting timber and growing
crops</span></span></div>
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</div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Were their way of life </span></span></div>
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</div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Yet</span></span></div>
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</div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Life was also lived</span></span></div>
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</div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">On the mean streets of North
Jacksonville</span></span></div>
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</div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Riverview </span></span></div>
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</div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Was where you went</span></span></div>
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</div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">When all other options were gone
</span></span></div>
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</div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">His father grew up on these</span></span></div>
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</div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Same streets delivering
turpentine</span></span></div>
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</div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">From the forest surrounding
the city</span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
</div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">At the age of 14 in 1906 </span></span></div>
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</div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">He would gear up mules</span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
</div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">And make the journey alone </span></span></div>
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</div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">On a wagon</span></span></div>
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</div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">His overalls stained with
sticky pinesap</span></span></div>
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</div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">With tobacco</span></span></div>
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</div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">With sweat</span></span></div>
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</div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">With dirt!<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span></div>
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</div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Now his son</span></span></div>
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</div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Was following his father’s
footsteps</span></span></div>
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</div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Yet</span></span></div>
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</div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Work was not all that thrived
in Riverview! </span></span></div>
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</div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">On the north side</span></span></div>
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</div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">When the sun went down</span></span></div>
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</div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">With his hair slicked back</span></span></div>
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</div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">And </span></span></div>
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</div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">His blue eyes sparkling in the
streetlights</span></span></div>
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</div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">This young man</span></span></div>
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</div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Would slip into the night</span></span></div>
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</div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">With his brothers and friends<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span></div>
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</div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Going from honky tonks to juke
joints</span></span></div>
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</div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Anywhere a good time could be
had!</span></span></div>
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</div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Because</span></span></div>
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</div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">When you were a child of The
Great Depression</span></span></div>
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</div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">And</span></span></div>
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</div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Had seen times so hard</span></span></div>
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</div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Your parents boiled the seed </span></span></div>
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</div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">For planting that year’s crop</span></span></div>
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</div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">To feed your brothers and
sister</span></span></div>
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</div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">To feed you!</span></span></div>
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</div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Any happiness even if through
recklessness </span></span></div>
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</div>
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Was excepted</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Was drifting away </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Drifting toward a domestic
life</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Of a father </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Of my father</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">On a Sunday afternoon in 1952</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">One last ride was taken </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">He and his Harley 74</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Suicide shift jutting upwards</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Its 1200 CC motor winding out</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">The wind stinging his face</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">As he blasted through</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Florida’s highway heat waves,
and humidity </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">He hit the Main Street Bridge</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">On the north side of the city </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">At 100mph </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Crossing over </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">From one life to another</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">From Harleys to house
mortgages</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">From ‘42 Ford coupes</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">He would raise his kids</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">With only stories of the life
he left behind</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">But the promise </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">That our lives </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Would be better than the one
he had lived!</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">The sun set on his wild ways</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">But rose every day for us </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">In the figure of our father!</span></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">His 82-year-old hands wrinkled
and scared</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Point here and there in the
horizon</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Telling me stories</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">About the places and people </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">That once were alive!</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Yet he can’t find any trace </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Of the world that surrounded
his childhood</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">But the world he created for
us will live on</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">All made by a man who was born
into nothing</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">But was able to give us
everything <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">A short time ago I was
informed I’m in the new Harry Crews biography <i id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1522514737665_2311">Blood, Bone And Marrow</i> by Ted
Geltner. I ordered a copy and when it arrived, I opened it to see my name in
the index. With a smile, I turned the pages and saw my time spent interviewing
Harry typed within. This book is well put together and is a wonderful read.
It’s definitely worth the buy. Pick up a copy today and enjoy the life and
times of one of the greatest writers of our time! </span><br />
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<span style="color: #004000; font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Bone-Marrow-Biography-Harry/dp/0820351393">Harry Crews biography Blood, Bone And Marrow by Ted Geltner</a></span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Jason E. Hodgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05254935477207190012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2575476540151851622.post-40194778977605471492018-02-19T14:16:00.000-08:002018-02-19T14:18:42.975-08:00Labels<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Liz Worth :
The Truth Is Told Better This Way. It’s no secret I’m a huge fan of Liz Worth
and have been since the first time I ran across her work. She is one of my
all-time favorite writers and I am lucky enough to call her my friend. Her work
and friendship have helped me through some very difficult times. She is
original, fearless, and true to herself. All of these qualities shine brightly
in the text of her new book. It’s apparent to me her words will be around for
generations to come. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">The first book I read by her was, Eleven Eleven. It’s
still one of my favorite works of poetry she’s done. I was more than thrilled
to be reminded of that masterpiece while reading through the pages of “The
Truth Is Told Better This Way.” Like the dots of George Seurat producing a
timeless work of art, Liz punched letter by letter, word by word, into a book
of poetry perfection. Her view of the world is transcended so beautifully
within these pages I think anyone who loves poetry would love this book. Pick
up a copy today and enjoy the words of Worth. A true artist of our time.</span></span></div>
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