That Hazy Summer Of '71 ... The HALFen With His Screwdriver

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My co-pilot

that summer

was a mayonaisse jar:

half-vodka

half orange juice

 

But I posed

with a beer can

because the photographer

had guzzled the quart

of homemade

screwdriver

My recently-widowed mother

was still alive

  I was half-way

to orphanhood

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