All Over the Place

Reason Why

Surreal Responses 

of Childhood!

Girls…then:

"Cocktail, Ginger Ale

Ten Cents a glass.

If you don’t like it?

Why, shove it up your

ask me no questions

I’ll tell you no lies! N’

if you get hit 

with a pail of shit,

be sure to close your eyes!"

(Or more-direct neighborhood variant:

Starr and Winchester, New Haven--near

Jack Ripkin's Mom-Pop store, and

for most games, especially 

Jump-rope Double-Dutch.)

"Cuz I got hit 

with a pail of shit,

and that’s the reason why!"

I rest my case remembering

those long black ropes just slap-

slapping,

slicing twilight, girls

singing fast,

and FASTER! now.

They surge 

to the BEAT!

Dreaming and 

Haste in 

their Glow-

ing mouths.