Thanks for the clarification, Hal. I'm not sure I would have identified the you I've been reading for the last 10 years or so as the author of DEAD MAN'S FLOAT. Am I accurate when I identify that war as the one in Korea? Initially I assumed Vietnam, but then biographical analysis came into play. Barry
On Mon, 4 Jul 2011 10:02:33 -0500, Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>I'm too young to have memories, Andrew. Besides, I wrote that one at least
>forty years ago, when my memory still worked.
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>On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 9:37 AM, andrew burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Fine start - Is there more? Some trickle of memories would provide some
>> more
>> rich poems, methinks. Andrew
>>
>> On 4 July 2011 21:28, Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> > *Dead Man's Float*
>> >
>> > milwaukee, wisconsin. sometime
>> > near the beginning of the war.
>> > a 4th of july parade, amid news
>> > paper reports of bodies found
>> > dismembered, dumped in trashcans
>> > along the lake michigan beaches.
>> >
>> > we decorate our tricycles
>> > with fireproof red white & blue
>> > streamers. we pump along the route,
>> > waving our flags, grinning
>> > at patriot parents. later
>> >
>> > that summer i fell in a lake
>> > & survived. my too-old-for-the-war
>> > uncle began to teach me to swim.
>> > arms out. legs out. face
>> > in the water, holding my breath:
>> > learning to live, practicing death.
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