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My Life In Five Chapters Chapter 1 Birth, early years, Detroit, a city of love, a city where doors are open and locks unlatched, prochial school, rides to Belle Isle, dirt with no grass, monsters in the dark.... Chapter 2 Same Mom, new Dad. Life in the burbs, green grass, new school, new everthing. Life is growing while I shrink, I am less of myself cause there is more of everything else, school, jobs, graduation.... Chapter 3 Military/Navy, ships, oceans, foreign lands, exotic people, no thing familiar. Marriage, divorce, childless, aimless, pointless...... Chapter 4 Old Detroit/new Detroit, locks and fear. New/old friends, new/old job, new/old life, change is change, good is good, change is not always good. Good is a taste that makes the tummy smile, a smell not defended but welcome. Study, work, advance, work by day, study by night, play all the time. Loves, and loves, and loves, but no lasting happiness. Chapter 5 Near the end of my last life, a new life coming (retirement), injury, change, no life....tested: friends, family, thoughts, change....no control/ life....no control/future....days wile away and pretend a future.... heart is sad/ hidden by a smile.... retired/48.... buy a computer, get a date....wheres the love/ cant wait....always a tomorrow/ just cant wait.... always old stranger/ never new friends....I do not want to just sit here and wait for the end.... Steve Graham April 2000
Random notes compiled into a disorganized fashion, flashes of a life experienced long ago forgotten, but somewhat remembered now. Falling on my cranium has dirupted current events and all priorities made serious by others: a clock that doesn't tick, a callendar without seasons. A life that no longer keeps time with a metronome, a body that is no longer weighed on a scale, a brain that no longer marches to the tempos of society.....