William Kelii Kekaula Poet Tanka

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In Collaboration With Paul Le Mat and Manuel Padilla Jr

Paul Le Mat, the guy
Who drove the yellow roadster
in American
Grafitti starred in the show,
Aloha Bobby & Rose,

With friend Manuel
Padilla Jr. who played
The little kid in
The Tarzan series of the 
Mid-sixties as Jai, Scarface,

Also, Grafitti,
Wanted to cash their weekly
Studio paychecks,
But they knew of the hotel
'DO NOT CASH' memo, but they had

Known of this sucker,
Behind the desk chiefly named,
Tom, so I did cash
it and made two new friends for
the longest two minutes, e'er.

***Manuel, who was two years older than me, has since passed but Paul, who was in his early thirties at the time, is still kicking at 73 years of age.


Date 08/28/2019
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Kim Rodrigues August 28, 2019 at 6:28 AM Always a walk down memory lane... William Kelii Kekaula August 28, 2019 at 1:23 PM Yes, they would stop by e'er so oft with small talk.