Eating Gus’s World Famous Fried Chicken with Larry Gawel this is life how it’s supposed to be larry with a long dangling mop of silver hair just off the highway resting his arm on a rainy friday afternoon talking about alaska denver spain & tokyo & this garage has never felt so small a leaky freighter of all the things i’ll never do now as hummingbirds wait out the weather by my window we run into town for stamps & chocolate ice cream my friend brian felster’s life began & ended on a boat in alaska in 1982 before he died at 48 surrounded by love richard hugo laughed by a stream with buddha on a deserted montana hiking path in the middle of the afternoon larry’s glasses are drenched in rain as we come in from outside he is a springsteen song always born to run & he will never die or run out of chicken.
About the Author: John Dorsey is the former poet laureate of Belle, Missouri and the author of Pocatello Wildflower. He may be reached at archerevans@yahoo.com.
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Image Credit: John Margolies “Chicken cowboy billboard, Elko, Nevada” (1991) Public domain image courtesy of the Library of Congress
As It Ought To Be 