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Bishop Reilly 1963
Freshmen Class Photo
I post this image
not so much because
of the handsome boy,
front row, center
but because of the boy
immediately
to his left.
That is TERRY DUGAN,
my best friend in 1963
with whom I hadn't spoken
for twenty-two years
until two weeks ago.
Since then,
we had three hours
of telephonic bliss
but what I am
most proud of:
hardly a day of his life
goes by without Terry
playing his guitar.
I have two other
boyhood friends
—Jack McCarthy + Peter Galasso—
for whom
the same thing is true
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You sure were an intense, handsome boy.
ReplyDeletePaul Oliverio says:
DeleteThe intensity is still there.
Whereas, hardly a day goes by
without my three boyhood friends
playing their guitars, hardly a day goes by
without me listening to Rock n' Roll