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1978-05-22

Monday, May 22nd, 1978 
               Did you know you smile in
                     your sleep?
               You must be having good dreams
               I wonder if I am there - -
                     no matter,
               for now, I am content with being
                     your reality.
               You make me run-through-the
               sprinkler-on-a-hot-day happy.
               Like a playful breeze you've
               blown ever-so-gently across
               my life.
               You cool me,
                  refresh me,
                     gentle me
               I know you'll blow away,
                              but wait,
               Please wait,
                  at least until the heat has passed.
                              Kathi K.
                              05-22-78

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

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1978-05-23 Oz

Tuesday, May 23rd, 1978 

                           Oz
      Poetic lady … Kansas and Oz …
      two reflections of the same thing
      in our eyes … changing life.
      That you can sometimes change
      from one to the other
      what does it matter …
      stand still and they will both blow by
      I’m a little bitter or melancholy, perhaps
      I’ve been pressing the Oz out of life so long now
      that all I hear are the lonely rumblings
      of my emotional freight trains running thru the nights
      some coming … some going.
      Their whistles scream “Oz” … “Oz”
      their journeys always end in Kansas
      Not too long ago
      I thought I was better than conventional love
      and I left the fireside to run for the trains, repeatedly
      but now I doubt that I was up to it … love …
      trains always drop you in Kansas
      and Kansas ain’t much without firesides.
                           Gallagher
                           Long Beach thinking about Kathi K.
                           05-23-78

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

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1978-05-23

Tuesday, May 23rd, 1978 
            and when the dust had settled
               she realized she was still in kansas
            and God but its hard to stay in kansas
                  after you've been to oz
                              Kathi K.
                              05-23-78

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

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