Seven years ago today I got out of the service
and I can remember, like it was yesterday.
Rose and I, driving north through central Texas,
eating the fried chicken she'd made for the trip.
We were going to Barry and Carol's in New Mexico,
we were going to L.A. to visit,
we were going to Eureka to live and go to school.
Freedom on that day from four years of service,
I was walking tall.
Now I'm here in a laboratory,
looking out at Palos Verdes
and its like a time jump from there to here.
How did I come to be here and where did Eureka go?
What became of all my dreams of freedom
and why are Rose and I living apart now?
gallagher
20 Oct 1977
— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —