Editorship Poems

Toe Valley Tom

"Toe Valley Tom will be right back!"  

Cued the Mule Skinner Blues, as I finally took a break from my Bluegrass Show on WTOE, the radio station you could hear across the street--if you were lucky! 

Its a very long story how I took a job as a DJ at a country station. Though, I will  mercifully shorten this episode in my life!

			drive through boulders
			onto the slippery main road
			spin out to station

I was recently married and had taken on the editorship of a small weekly newspaper.  Well, it folded after a few months and desperate for a job, any work that I could find in the tiny mountain village near the Estatoe River to support wife and myself! (the county and namesake river were shortened to "Toe"--hence the name given to  me)

WTOE hired me as a morning DJ and reporter after a short audition--also I was the only announcer who could read the news and be understood.

You would probably be shocked to learn how I detested country music!  Sheer torture for yours personally who only liked classical and a little jazz!  But, I could tolerate bluegrass, which was the only saving grace!

			
			mournful music
			caught myself singing along
			immediately quit