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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e94HWJFG9Y Here's a link to my YouTube channel, where I read from my latest books: Seedy Town Blues Collected Poems, It's Just a Hop, Skip, and a Jump to the Madhouse, and Sleep Always Calls. They are available on Amazon. The latest video on my channel is an interview I did with the Order of the Pen Magazine.

It was a four-horse race at
Santa Anita.
I was with my old man and
little brother.
I put everything I had on
the number 3 horse to show.
His name was Dusty’s Diaper.
Shoemaker was aboard;
the shoe, for God’s sake.
It was a sure thing.
All he had to do was not
come in fourth place.

I learned that day,
in a horse race,
that anything can happen.
I was 12 years old.
And like horse racing,
In life, anything can
happen.

Amidst the California evening,
On our way to the car,
I thought my Dad
would live forever.

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    1. First you took us to a memory. Then that last line. And that is the reason the memory matters. Beautiful. I knew mine wouldn’t live long, still hurts he’s gone

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