Dimming down towards twilight
Abbott and Costello or the Bowery Boys
Greasy burgers in the fry pan
Cooked with onions candy brown
Wintry Monday afternoons
Staying out of the cold with my mother
Dialing for Dollars and Candlepins for Cash
Starch steam stench of mashed potatoes
Scorched on the surface of the copper bottom pot
Memories that glow in black and white
When life seemed to move so slowly
Now time speeds away and life’s colors blur
And I’m left breathing out its exhaust.
by David Lawton
David Lawton trained at Boston University theatre school. Acted Off-Broadway; Off-Off Broadway playwright; featured vocalist with band Leisure Class. In January 2009 he co-produced Downtown Does Huncke for His Birthday, stories by beat godfather Herbert Huncke
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