Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

The poster was always there,
framed on the wall, telling his
story, Jumpin Jack Coburn "HIGHJUMPER"
when I was lil I was always waitin for him
he worked shifts for the weather bureau
& when done he'd head to the links,
hains point, oxon run, glen dale where
he saw mickey mantle and was waitin on
iverson st. after i got off 3rd grade to tell
me all about it, round about 1962 i reckon.
We'd do the trip down to chesapeake beach
on the weekends amidst an endless chrome
line all the way to the bay on those hot
summer days of my youth.

Vague memories of streetcar at barney circle and ride up pennsyvania ave. to see the senators play the yankees in
'61, mick & roger hittin em out of the park in quest of
the babe's record 60. Then riding downtown to 11th & penn
and seeing real hobo's and the cool 5 & dime, big stores and
movie houses on their last legs. We were living on southern ave.
south east, wedged between the golf course, suitland parkway and d.c. Jack was always playin golf with uncle chuck who was a wild d.c. cop, when we'd go to play at dupont park course in southeast d.c him and his cop buddies would be packin their rods.

to be continued............................

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know way

cold dreams

Vague memories of streetcar at barney circle

The barney circle dinner in the late sixties, gone now probably I think they built a metro station there. I used to love going there. Like a Edward Hopper painting. I would go there in the wee hours after leaving my girlfriends house. My girlfriend lived on capital hill, a real elegant JAP from Manhattan She never went there with me it was not her cup of tea. She used to correct me when I would thank a waiter at the A.V. Ristorante Italiano
around NY ave and bladensbug rd? Told me they were servants no need to thank them. We would talk for hours and hours over dinner. The place would close around us and we would be oblivious. A wonderful friendship, but it was over after we became lovers. I know you are a married man so this don’t apply. Never say thank you Jesus after you climax, even if it has been seven years since the last time you were there. I was thinking of that Rolling Stones song “The Girl With The Far away eyes” but she didn’t see the humor in it.

Dupont gulf course,

I think Lee Elder played there when he was a kid. Not sure if it was segregated and he had to sneak in.

Thanks and good morning
waiting for more...........