Monday, January 17, 2022

Rod McKuen at a Garage Sale - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

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Rod McKuen at a Garage Sale

 

We don’t know who Baby Booger and Tommie were

They sent each other notes and underlines

And colored slips of paper from page to page

In Someone’s Shadow (“Hardbacks 25 Cents”)

 

The exuberance of adolescent arcs

Reminds us of our long-ago callow youth

When we thought we had discovered something

In secretly sharing free verse in home room

 

And we had – indulging in forbidden lines

Is still good therapy for being sixteen

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