WINDY CITY
   stopped in because of the rain
   water again
   from contract to contract
   
   NOTE***still no national titles swimmers in Country
          Champs and regional final
                                   states mate
   the rain is so hard I have to stop hitching
   the shelter is high on the hill
   gumboots off at the door
   flaw
             blue was a model(looked like what's her name)
             working as a waitress
             studying art still at school
             but in a higher confusion
             waitress artist
             artist waitress
             sure more
             than that
             would break the rules
             when they can be found


             helped blue with her homework
                rain
                lightning
       warm in bed
       wrote and read
             a short story together
   called the story GONE
   taken overseas to be published
      the story has the numbers 1   9   8   1

             I have turned to tea
   jack. neill. bill. and me                                                  
   
   all now in the 50s
                   This story
         Can be best read the way we watch a movie
           get it
               reel
   one frame the hero is on the boat
   next frame dressed for and sitting down to dinner
         though at 13 how many movies have I seen


   space place
   late at night
   bright
   sight
   aeroplanes waiting for all the stories to board for we
   
   (I really mean me)are off to D
                                DA
                                DARKEST AFRICA
   No more for us fish the choice of two islands or the big
   RED
   
   Work is now in black and white
   Blue is through, ah yes but because I don't have what the
   Customs man wants I must walk straight past him with out
   stopping(bit risky)
           sure,
                 no choice, to freedom and survival
      then I remember the dream,
      I'm looking down in all light, sleeping
      naked from the waist up
      the light then begins to tattoo on my back
  a three high crucifix,                                                      
                        all done in white and gold......
  In the time it has taken to recall this I am now at the
  red line follow the green
             cross the red
             for danger, my travel bag with stain glass
   label tags on the four zips is over the shoulder
   
   
   ready,
         up to where this very overweight stretched blue
   black man is stomping passports,
                                   his round and shiny face
   a great reflector for the inside airport lights.
   By now 3 things are happening at once though it may be as
        high as 52
                       (1)  I'm singing the same dollar brand song as always
                            though to myself
                       (2)  trying to make up a rap version
                       (3)  flashed that to always be 13 is as a candle
                            that has too large a candleholder,
                       (3a) This whole story
 
 
            LOOK AGAIN the opening ten
   minutes of a movie a PERSON standing on a hill
   with a view of how green is my valley reflecting on
   childhood and thinking dreaming of a further.
   
   THE LATE                                                                       
   INTRODUCTION