Remedial post one of five. <\/p>\n
I drove north and crashed in the fifth wheel by the new good coffee place in the pines. Except ‘crashed’ wasn’t what happened. I was seized instead at bedtime, not by a neurotic stress episode as in months past, but by another of those poem titles to unfold.<\/p>\n
“1957”. <\/p>\n
It was the year of the most iconic American car, the Chevy. It was the year that my own mother turned eighteen, and got married. <\/p>\n
We don’t know a whole lot about what happened for the first four years, except that there were things that no one really wanted to talk about for a long stretch into the future. <\/p>\n
But at the dawn of the sixties, the marriage began to rapidly bear fruit. <\/p>\n
She had three sons, each of whom started out as Mama’s boys, and each of whom became Ladies Men, in their various and I do mean various ways. <\/p>\n
She had three daughters, each of whom grew up to be genuine beauties, and not just beautiful either. Foxy. Smart. Again, each in their own fashion. <\/p>\n
This imagery haunted me for some hours before I could drift off. <\/p>\n
Can you not see how 1957 could be tempted to unfold?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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