answering, "You can tell it goodbye!"? Lucky

stiff, Rusty saw every round trip that Say Hey

 

Kid would poke. Those were the days. Is it

broken, Coach, forever now? First air, then

 

window screen, glass pane webbed with wire,

iron bars, rough simple Cross? De Quincey,

 

Thomas, famous English Opium Eater, arrested

and confessed, still ran up bills in debtors' jail.

 

Three months and your case comes up. I mean

your cast comes off. Why did Spring arrive

 

again? Her lost bird flew home yesterday? Well,

it's been a year. You touch that silver dial once

 

more I'll tell Uncle Mike. Already the cocker

chewed one jigsaw piece and two are missing

 

with several ivory dominoes. The bite taken

from the apple? That bastard switched car jacks

 

on you, knowing full well how cold Montana

gets? Young kids and Indians pass out and freeze

 

to death up north. Ha, colder than a well-digger's

ask, ha, ha, ha, as Langford used to rib for fun.

 

You sad he passed? Not much? He often wore

expensive handmade cowboy boots. My

 

Safeway shoes wore through today. Wharf

rats treading on the sinking Mayflower with

 

Bradford, John Alden and Priscilla, Miles

Standish in the wings? The water rises. Use

 

rolled cardboard to plug the holes. What gives?

You say Pluto's not a planet now? Wal-Mart

 

just bought the moon? High time! I don't get

high enough enough but Dr. Sam Johnson wrote

 

the dictionary and these short prayers save time.

Yes, Montague, "Aloha" means both, "Hello"

 

and "Goodbye," though no such word exists,

as yet, in English usage, or, for that matter, in

 

American, as we have learned most recently,

in our first presentation, if memory serves me