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<\/a>The Hartman's<\/p><\/div>
\na really hot hot summer day in late 1960’s my mother asked me
\nwhat i wanted for my birthday dinner
\nhot hot oven and no aircondition ing
\nok my favorites hamburger and frenchfries and here we were lined up
\non the long table(hand crafted) Later:
\nMr. Hartman arriving like an anthology of darkness, writing his lifes numbers in little black books
\nand sometimes he would write to God, skipping through Jesus and right to the
\nboss of the house always six feet taller then anyone else, he never
\nwore jeans and grew tomatoes and roses
\noutside<\/p>\n
With the cuckoo clock on the rec room wall
\nscaring the simplicities of childhood right outta my ripped spaceman-pajamas. Modern
\nkitchen catching Thusday nights setting sun”Dad is gonna KILLYOU when he gets home
\nand yet”he never did murder.Just sits down to steak and mashed potatoes laced with speed
\n“Pretend we’re an unexploded bomb (she shivers and sighs”<\/p>\n
These two that got married in the rain one soft June anniversary day in who knows when
\nnineteen hundred and who cares. They drank and gambled fought and loved.
\nAfter too many cigarettes and Rock and Ryes on the rocks the kitchen walls
\ncollapsed and woke the ten children out of deep dark dreams<\/p>\n
you are ATOP of a mountain of stairs The worn out gold shag carpet path
\nholding your siblings hands Down in the valley of kitchen the scream ing makes no
\nsense. Constant.
\nA freight train flying by at top speed endless your necks straining for the end somewhere the caboose please
\nGod help the world is ending when your parents are drunk and fighting bells and lights flashing
\nfinally from the top of the mountain fog in the sobbing, someone cries out PLEASE STOP
\n
<\/a>You are past boundaries of late night unheard of in your age.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
a really hot hot summer day in late 1960’s my mother asked me what i wanted for my birthday dinner hot hot oven and no aircondition ing ok my favorites hamburger and frenchfries and here we were lined up on … Continue reading