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RSWells
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0 posted 2005-01-08 01:26 AM


    
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To the late Jimmy “Na Na” Morris, crony
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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
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jamoke=slang; cretin
chizz=slang; a cheater



Poets against the war is redundant

© Copyright 2005 Richard S. Wells jr. - All Rights Reserved
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1 posted 2005-01-08 06:37 AM



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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2 posted 2005-01-08 08:41 AM


oh, cool piece here
yes

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3 posted 2005-01-09 12:48 PM


l#ve the words, l#ve the pic
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4 posted 2005-01-09 12:55 PM


your words, as always, are a superb read,
and that photo?
absolutely hotly cool

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5 posted 2005-01-10 02:10 PM


RSWells 2 words well 3 words.......
I Love It.

:-)

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6 posted 2005-01-10 08:39 PM


What a great presentation, sorry I missed it.  Clever you!
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7 posted 2005-01-10 08:49 PM


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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8 posted 2005-01-10 09:06 PM


way cool .. yep. Enjoyed!! Chris

~The soul that can speak through the eyes can also kiss with a gaze~
Gustavo Adolfo Becquer

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9 posted 2005-01-11 06:28 PM


very romantic time piece but
please fill me in

the poet, the man with the big gun
one and the same?

RSWells
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10 posted 2005-01-12 10:44 AM


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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