Put Your Hand on the Radio

Q: “Put your hand on the radio.” What’s that from.

A: Brother Al, A. L., Box 435, Hayward, California.

Bukowski & a Ballad for Gone America. I listened to WSWN, Belle Glade, when I went to Palm Beach Junior College, in Lake Worth.

Burt Reynolds went to Palm Beach Junior College.

Q: At the same time?

A: Before me.

Deidre Hall went there.

Q: At the same time?

A: After me.

I used to watch her on Days of Our Live, in Atlanta.

Q: You watched a soap opera?

A: I watched Days of Our Lives, in Atlanta.

Q: Why?

A: To see how they did it.

Q: Deidre Hall is from Lake Worth.

A: Lake Worth is ten miles from Delray Beach.

Lake Worth was our football rival.

Q: Ah, the high school football rival. Lake Worth pier.

A: I think Lake Worth pier is seen in Body Heat. Also some exteriors in Manalapan.

The beach road. A1A. I had a car. In high school.

I would drive up to Boynton Inlet and park. Listen to classical music on the radio station from Palm Beach.

I would put my hand on the radio and pray to be delivered from where I was at.

I saw Alec Guinness play Gully Jimpson in The Horse’s Mouth at a movie theater in Palm Beach.

I saw Bergman’s Through a Glass Darkly at an art theater in Lake Worth.