Best Boy Howdy Poems

Aged and mellowed, golden whiskey in a wide mouth Mason jar.
Poured over sweet rock candy, was the guaranteed cure,
of ticklish throats; sprained ankles; hair loss; hang nails and more.
Always kept on hand, for times of desperate need,
of which Grandpa had a profound proclivity for.
No glass...

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She turns me around
Forty years ago
At High School graduation
And she says…
Something I can’t remember

It was probably something like,
‘Well, lookit that!’ or
‘Boy, Howdy!’ or
Some such encouragement

And… though I cannot remember it
Now, I would not part with it
For all the treasures riding
In all the ships on the...

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Yeah – 
I
thought about it

I 
Looked at all those pills
in their precise, pristine,
plastic bottle & yeah,
I thought about it

I
looked at the shimmering,
silky, shining straight-edge razor and

I
thought
about
it

I
looked at my wrists and yeah,

I thought about it! 

~~~

I thought
about it
& then I

cradled the silent silver
seductive steel barrel of...

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