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I'm an expatriot native Californian who loves the state but will never live there again because the government is nuts and the cost of living outrageuous. Semi-retired now, I worked as a welder most of my life at various places around the country, beginning in 1973 in Orem, Utah. I've also lived and worked in Ohio, where my ex-wife was from and where we were married when I followed her there from Utah in 1976. I should have stayed in Utah. But at least I had the biggest winning lottery ticket I've ever had in my life while there, ten dollars. I've also lived and welded in Boise, ID; Long Beach, CA; Nashville, TN; Mobile AL, Port Arthur, TX ; as well as Indiana, where I also spent five years as an independent contracting driver delivering motor homes to dealers around the country and into Canada, by means of which I've visited every state in the lower 48 plus several Provinces of Canada. A great job, if you like to travel. Especially if you are a history buff as I am.

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AUGUST 21, 2010 11:33PM

Wails In The Halls Of Laundry

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A poem I wrote back in college while flying high on peyote one night, circa 1972 or thereabouts.

Wails in the Halls of Laundry.  A Slap On the Ass and I'm born again.              (Full title.  Too many charactors for the OS title allowance.)

 Note that God holds out his hand, and heed the whistlestops. 

I spoke to Jesus through a cloth of thinly veiled marginal thoughts.

"Mankind" he said, "is cloning around.  Self causation is his goal."

I refuse to be my father in a world given over to Christmas shopping.

 

Or, if you prefer, the Avett Brothers performance of "Laundry Room" at the 2010 Bonneroo Music Fest in Tennessee.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDAicNrBIe8&feature=fvw

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everybody with an IQ above room temperture should have to take peyote at least once
Jack Heart
August 22, 2010 03:43 PM
I wish I had saved more of my writing. Pretty cool!
Metaxa Cunningham
August 22, 2010 08:55 PM
No I wasn'tthere, Snarkychaser. A friend sent me an email with video link in it, and I got to looking around for more Avett Brothers video's and came across this one. The title of the song reminded me of that old poem from so long ago, and I figured most people would enjoy one if not the other.

I could have been there, though. I worked with a guy for 12 years who built a house on the same road the Bonneroo Music Fest is held on, and everyone who lives on that street gets free tickets and he has invited me down for it, some time. It's a ways to go to Middle Tennesse but one day I want to take him up on it. And after seeing this clip and all the energy and how into it the crowd was, I wish I was there for this one.

Thanks for the comment.
HenryR
August 23, 2010 11:36 AM
Well, I wouldn't go so far as to make it a blanket requirement, Jack, but I at least have no regrets.
HenryR
August 23, 2010 11:37 AM
Thanks, Metaxa. And like you, I wish that I had saved more of mine. This wasn't saved in writing though, but in memory. It ain't that long. Or even that long ago, through some neural passages of the mind.
HenryR
August 23, 2010 11:39 AM
Well, I saw a huge amanita muscaria on my hike this evening. Now that would have been a trip!
Ralph Tingey
September 01, 2010 12:06 AM
Yeah, it would have been, Ralph. Such trips for me were all in the distant past. Though in some ways not so distant, as I told Metaxa. But I wouldn't even recognize an amanita muscaria. Thanks for dropping by and for the comment.
HenryR
September 01, 2010 12:20 AM
I don't really understand poetry so please don't be insulted if I wasn't supposed to but I laughed so hard I snorted. Is that wrong? I really liked it.
l'Heure Bleue
September 09, 2010 11:44 PM
LMAO! Didn't snort, though. Thank you, l'Heure Bleue. I needed that, with so much of our attention lately on 9/11 and the upcoming anniversary of that. No, it defininitly was not wrong! In fact, it was very right. Thanks again. This post of yours has made my evening. I will go to bed with a lighter heart.
HenryR
September 10, 2010 01:19 AM