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Tom Blessing |
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Dinner Alone dinner tonight was hamburger bought ground round up at louie's supervalue 2 broke an egg, garlic power, italian bread crumbs and some cajun seasoning into the redness of the meat kneaded the mix over and over and made 6 patties - dinner for tonight and the weekend beats eating alone at the evergreen or michigan house you have your interview in cadillac on saturday i will haul college rooms from ho-town to our garage in calumet - stack 2x4's, boxes, dorm fridges, and microwaves around the walls and sort out fishing supplies and yard tools i wish you luck , the best soon we'll be together with the kids in detroit a family for a few weeks before the girls fly off to germany and arkansas i'll eat the burgers cold with chips, salad from a bag and a beer and i'll think of you of your smooth skin your smile, the way you smell, the way you move, and the way you stand still, yes, i'll eat my cold burgers and think of you a little happiness will be nice She Watches him as he moves through the aisles lifting up a grapefruit reading the label on a can of beans just checking the sodium level his fingers are crooked arthritis has curled them but she sees them as smooth strong, gripping a bat as he waited for a pitch his green uniform tight across his chest and thighs she sees them curled around her fingers as he held her hands at the roadside park along lake superior when he asked her to marry him and she remembers how he could still get an erection then damn, she thinks those were the good old days Sometimes i walk up to miller's after dark something about bowling alley sounds and smells that i miss it sure as hell ain't throwing the ball down the alley, nope probably something from when i was a kid, going up to the alley with my dad and while he bowled i'd play pinball drink cokes and breath in the beery, smoke filled air |