occasional poem

"first thought, best thought"

~allen ginsberg

holidays approaching again

my first wife dumped me

xmas eve 1976

a bicentennial break-up

which i richly deserved

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i rented a truck

retrieved my gear, my books,

with 3 now-estranged friends

but i left behind my record albums

now known as vinyl

a shy acknowledgement

of fault, maybe, or

maybe just a typical

p. o'hayer fuck-up

sorta half-rhymes with break-up

life went on

i won the lottery

so many times since then

i probably owe her a cut

presently headed to kansas

for the holidays

with KW, new beginning

horizons expanding

and i'm no cowboy

but i did love "wyatt earp" on TV

in the Fifties

dodge city

when westerns ruled the day

and gunplay settled every dispute

thank you, ex missus o'hayer,

where ever you may be

thank you so very very much

hope you're playing my

songs of leonard cohen

which i bought 

when it dropped

december 1967

on this sad sad sad day

november 2016

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