Different Slants

Seeing the World from a New Angle

For Love of My Pet, Betsy

Filed under: Existential Pets,Friendship & Compassion,Life & Death — Bob at 12:10 pm on Saturday, April 28, 2012

by Robert M. Katzman © April 30, 2012 (my 62nd birthday)

Long ago

Her thin back

to the wide murky

Fast-flowing

Mississippi River

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Her long

White-blond hair

Tousled like

Autumn Hay

In the cold river’s wind

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Chilled Baskin-Robbins Beauty Makes Me Hot!!!…………by Robert M. Katzman

Filed under: Gritty Katzman Chicago Stories,Hyde Park (Chicago),Jewish Themes,Love and Romance,subtle erotica — Bob at 4:50 am on Wednesday, April 18, 2012

by Robert M. Katzman © 4/17/12

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Spring 1966

Sixteen

Need a job

Wandering hot streets

I spy

Baskin-Robins!

A sign:

Help Wanted

Mandarin Chocolate Sherbet

Mint Chocolate Chip

Dark Chocolate

Jesus!!!

Panting

I chance it

Walk in

And see her

An older woman

Twenty-two

Short

Big brown eyes

Built

Name tag: Miriam

Ok

They don’t have to pay me

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