It took Dad eight years to go through college.
Pop would have a nervous breakdown and he would
have to go home and run the family business for a year.
Also, he waited tables in a fraternity for his room and board.
Sigma Phi Epsilon. He lettered in track. He sang in
the Glee Club. Being
in a fraternity at
later in life, if knowing business leaders and politicians
in every town around the state could be a help to
a resident of
the SEC football games on television
and listened to the
on the radio. Go, Gators.
When I saw Yulee’s
Gold, in
the 4x4s cruising the IGA parking lot
on Friday night, I hollered, “Go, Gators,”
the
Nobody caught the joke.
That’s the history of my life.
Esoteric references nobody catches.
It’s like I’m talking to myself, and Brenda.
Friday night in
Friday night in Wewahitchka.
Wild, screaming sex in Brenda’s trailer.
Near the prison. The stock-car races.
Fastest dirt track in the south.
The
Watch the bees make honey.
Listen to the paint dry.