Party days...running together...wine and friends
day after day the hours give way to our next plans
Kathleen and Mike and Elmer and Joel and Richard...mixing
The chief chemists...the speech I gave...the party after
Kathleen bombed and all of us smiling
The next day, so unbelievably removed from our lives
we laughed the hours...loved the sun...and kissed our smiles
between our life passages we find such peace, rarely
Mike came from Sacramento for the weekend
an old friend...good friend...he shared my hours and my house
and listened to my life's whispering as I turned it pages
and Elmer, in from Reno...1st time in a year
Mike and Elmer and I...drinking beer all night, easy friends
the beach...the movies...the restaurants
the love making...the conversation Kathy and I had
when we were so tired as we rambled and wrestled
with more than we could hope to grasp at our best
such pleasant pain.
gallagher
4 july 78
— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —