Clarence Frogman Henry

[still.trucking]

Thinkin about a scene about the merry pranksters in The Electric Kool Aide Acid test. Living in LA homeless, using the restrooms in filling stations. Carrying a key hooked to a tire rim.

So far from home and no one to call if you run out of money.

Just what do I owe her now?

[still.trucking]

Chickens
Does she hear what she is saying to me? Every wrong decision she ever made I was behind her all the way.


The Fear of Being ...
To just be

The courage to be

A walk of faith.

Been a long time since I lived away from my family.

Baltimore among the graves in 1980.

Before that Nashville in 1974.

and the twenty years i was over the road

[zero_hero]

the fear of being
not the fear of being alone, not the fear of this or that

but the fear of being
the thing in its self

[Diana Moon Glampers]

all of a sudden I have a fear of being alone.

the sweet anonymity of the road
where nobody knows your name

all of a sudden I have a fear of being alone.


when solitude was so sweet to me
I dream of the road again

[the mingo]

Sudden fear is, in the absence of imminent peril, usually a good indication one is in the vicinity of a phantom - the root of this word, according to those who study such things, goes at least as far back as proto-indo-european. Which gives it a reach of unguessed millennia.

\ sorry Jack, usually I just read your jottings and enjoy them very much for all that they are, but every once in awhile something you write or the context you place it in stirs me up off my perch.
And it's autumn. Anyways, my notion got interrupted, the root for the word phantom means a shine, or to shine or a shining.

Pay no attention to the curtain behind the man. It hangs there to conceal the fact he is a lousy housekeeper.

[still.trucking]

I usually just read along on mingo's lingo for the same reasons steve.

I hope you are feeling better after the cold. I know it was worth it. I don't I think I could swing a kayack anytime soon. But I could use a good dunk in the river right now. Just starting to get chilly here. My brother in law 'the bear' got weeds growing around here six feet high and they all sprung their pollen at the same time this morning. I sneezed for a half hour straight. I remember Trumon capote saying on Johnny Carson that a sneeze was a lot like an orgasm. I feel pretty played out.

Good copy on the phantom. My broter law kept asking me to move in, I just could not refuse him anymore. Strange feeling kind of like being a couch person again. My sister made me a little nook out of book cases to screen my bed.


I remember the road so fondly, but it was hard mingo, plenty of ice in the shadows.

thanks for dropping by
sincerely

[still.trucking]

Worried about the bear, he was a big old friendly texan before he married my sister. Just a shadow of the man he was but that probably more to do with the brain tumor. He has married my sister twice. This time the Marriage has lasted a lot longer.

[the mingo]

Thx, Jack. The cold is still draggin' the line on me. This thing is miserable. Actually took the day off from work today - that bad. So you're over at your
brother-in-law's & sister's now? That's got to be a switch from living by yourself. I'm glad I got Nancy, I couldn't even contemplate living with my sister. Yeah, thin ice in the shadows. No ice here yet but it's coming. That dunk from my kayak into the water was a shock, glad I wern't out there alone though. I got up on shore by myself but it took the other three to get my boat back to me. Made me think about getting a kayak with a hatches both front and rear. My boat only has a watertight hatch on the aft and that was the only part you could see above water. The front is just hollow so it filled with water. It was hard for those guys & Nancy to try and maneuver it in that condition as they were all still in their own boats. No leverage against the weight of all that water in my boat. Like I said got my eyes opened to more than one thing that day. And you're right we do tend to remember something we miss fondly, forgetting as we do that there were a lot of times it proved out to be hard.