Hi there Gary,
Wow, this is quite a departure from your usual style. Cool and crazy, just
the kind of stuff I like! (you know me...) Excellent work, I'd love to see
a few more about this tourist, kinda like my Marla and Christina's
Thelma...lol The 2nd stanza is awesome...strainers in the trees...HA!
Cheerwell Friend & congratulations on the new grandbaby!!!!!! Give him a
snuggle for me...
Mary :O)
> >From: garydawg <[log in to unmask]>
> >The Tourist
> >(in the style of Marvin Bell's Dead Man)
> >
> >1. About Visiting Port Townsend
> >
> >The tourist drifts down Water Street
> > past dead shops, wine shops, cheap leather shops.
> >The tourist is upset the new age-mystical-any religion represented
> > storefront is in flashy new quarters.
> >The tourist prefers his crystals in the dark.
> >The tourist moves past vanilla ice cream and gray pilings to Twigs,
> > but Emily is again in London stealing uniforms off the Buckingham
> > Palace guards.
> >The tourist, hungry, looks across the marina to Otter's Crossing,
> > full of tourists, the otters, having left for Chimicum, no longer
> >cross.
> >Tourists, the bane of the tourist.
> >The tourist, cross, drifts off Water Street, west to Washington,
> > where the scent of shavings, recycled oil, and dry books will
> assault
> > his nostrils.
> >The tourist, hungry, has lost his car.
> >
> >2. More About Visiting Port Townsend
> >
> >The tourist is hardly a tourist. He lives at Four Corners between
> > otters and crossing, in a house once painted blue.
> >The tourist's house is orange, or at least appears orange, or at least
> > appears orange in the light of summer, when the tourists come.
> >The tourists take pictures of the orange house. When the pictures are
> > developed, the house is yellow or green depending on the light.
> >The tourist thinks the tourists should pay for the pictures.
> >But to collect, the tourist would have to stay home.
> >But to collect, the tourist could not tour Port Townsend.
> >But to collect, the tourists may ask the tourist questions
> > about why bedposts are planted in the front yard,
> > bicycle frames in the side,
> > and strainers hang in the cedars in the back where the tourists
> > can not see them.
> >The tourist hates to answer questions, which is why when asked
> > directions to Port Townsend, the tourist gives directions to
> > Quilicene.
> >The tourist needs to find his car.
> >But to find his car, the tourist would have to ask questions.
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Good Cheer & Be Well,
Maryann Hazen-Stearns
"Under The Limbo Stick"
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