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Backing Up Bogey
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Backing Up Bogey |
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RSWells Member Elite
since 2001-06-17
Posts 2533
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 . . . To the late Jimmy “Na Na” Morris, crony . . . . Always a loner, never quite alone in those hungrier days of imbalance. Brothers stood together in dust, a dime might make a difference if it could be spared The well heeled yet showed consciences, networks were the fishermen’s honest toil and folks were neighbors three miles away. Sunday’s dose stifled jamokes for a week But mouthpieces were already tiptoeing above whispers, stumbling toward jabber, marketing, new science for setting up marks, robber barons used Wall Street as a chizz moat A short stretch and the warden figured we’d be two cats, tails tied, tossed over a clothesline soon saving the state future grief. Started out maybe so, an hour we glared no betraying blink, movement or thaw Maybe it was the dumb kid I yanked free of harm, when I didn’t flinch at the bull’s sap to my arm. After that we talked, agreed honesty was closer to a rod in the kisser than signing beneath ish kabibble’s words Moxie met and meant business later on Men at work in the office of the world . . . . . jamoke=slang; cretin chizz=slang; a cheater Poets against the war is redundant |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
You make the "scrap" of those times set themselves apart from now... even the street sounds of back then NY come full into my mind...I can even hear the vendors haggling... Excellent work, Richard. |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
oh, cool piece here yes |
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Aenimal Member Rara Avis
since 2002-11-18
Posts 7350the ass-end of space |
l#ve the words, l#ve the pic |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
your words, as always, are a superb read, and that photo?  absolutely hotly cool |
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froggy Senior Member
since 2003-06-23
Posts 1893Michigan |
RSWells 2 words well 3 words....... I Love It. :-) |
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Mysteria
since 2001-03-07
Posts 18328British Columbia, Canada |
What a great presentation, sorry I missed it. Clever you! |
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Magnus
since 2001-10-10
Posts 14135South Carolina, USA |
Richard.. Bogey has always been one of my favorite "loners"... And you have done a superb job of setting the mood and scene with both the pic and the talented words of a time most have never truly seen. Thanx! |
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Nightshade
since 2001-08-31
Posts 13962just out of reach |
way cool .. yep.  Enjoyed!! Chris ~The soul that can speak through the eyes can also kiss with a gaze~ |
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inkedgoddess Member Rara Avis
since 2002-11-19
Posts 7392Ohio |
very romantic time piece but please fill me in the poet, the man with the big gun one and the same? |
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RSWells Member Elite
since 2001-06-17
Posts 2533 |
Thank you all for commenting on this different write, a tribute to both hard scrabble, but more honest times and a dead friend, sometimes partner in capers. Yes Michelle same whacko. The Movie Channel was in a local mall and would insert one's head on a choice of several different movie scenes. I always liked the tough guys. But they had a pair of pants Bogey wore and I was amazed how tiny he was. Were that my body I'd have loomed over him. My pal 'Na' was tiny too and one reason I never underestimate a little guy. I don't own any guns (though I once did). |
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