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tough guy poetry and manly stories of loneliness
all contents copyright Jon Rolston 2004, 2005, 2006

November 25, 2009

immortalized in a poem

My pal from poetry classes sent me a poem, wanna hear it/hear it goes….

GIFTS & SALVAGE

Central California
drains out of one
dry swamp

dub
KPOO

postcards from:
Kaikoura
Mystic Seaport
Chicago
on my desk
a salvaged
piece of
shelfwood
from
back when
Lumber and Wood
was on
Folsom and 23rd
holds my typer—
and a light
bought off a crackhead on Haight

on my bookshelf
a gift bottle of
napa valley
2002
the red
cast iron
US
MAIL
coin bank
was my
greatgrandfather’s
a LUCKY
STRIKE
chapbook
by toughguy
and red abalone
shells
full with
changecoin

toughguy
gimme the desk
too

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