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Osage Orange
1973
A young boy,
walkin' the street,
mostly barefeet.
Road tar bubbles
in the heat.
Cut-off jeans radio on the hip,
songs on the lip
and bayou water.
Stolen copper,
should've done better
but the law was just
a letter,
L
I swear it just fell.
Ha!
Mostly barefoot,
years pass.
Missing sometimes missing
what never lasts.
...watermarks on memories
the taste of summer rain,
fragments of my being,
etched in the grain.
Recollections
I remember blacktop and the "smell of summer rain" - nice memories - slc