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A periodic record of thoughts and life as these happen via the various roles I play: individual, husband, father, grandfather, son, brother (brother-in-law), writer, university professor and others.

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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.

Monday, October 25, 2010

Marriott to Motel 6

In three nights spent
at the Kansas City Marriott,
I saw nothing like the man--
with the yellow-stained white
mullet, standing shirtless
in the doorway of his room
and smoking--seen
upon my late arrival
for a one-night stay
at the Motel 6
in Mt. Vernon, Illinois.


Busy days make for short poems!

posted by mac | 11:09 AM

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