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I was born on Shaw Air Force Base in Sumter, South Carolina, then lived a while in Fayetteville, North Carolina, before moving, at the age of 5, to Walnut, NC. I graduated from Madison High School in 1977. After a brief time in college, I spent the most of the 1980s in Nashville, Tennessee, working as a songwriter and playing in a band. I spent most of the 1990s in school and now teach at a university in Tennessee. My household includes wife and son and cat. In South Carolina I have a son, daughter-in-law and two granddaughters.

Friday, October 22, 2010

Lunch in Kansas City

Melody serves my steak and beer
at Ted's Montana Grill:
"Kansas City Strip"
(bison cooked medium,
bleeding a little),
Corona Extra,
salt-and-pepper onion rings,
"vine-ripened tomatoes" (so called).
All is good
when it comes,
except that the tomatoes
are little more than ghosts
of tomatoes,
except that I feel
vaguely guilty
eating bison.

posted by mac | 8:33 PM

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