by Robert M. Katzman © May 10, 2022
Standing in front of it
So magnificent
This great gift from
Wisconsin Pioneers
A slight breeze
Rustling my silver hair
I am so much older now
The dark wooden bridge
Even older
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by Robert M. Katzman © April 30, 2022
I’m a writer. I interviewed Mike Royko in May 1968 for my high school newspaper, the University of Chicago High School Midway, when I was 18. He was 36.
The same issue where I wrote an anonymous column about how two plainclothes Chicago cops beat the hell out of me the week before, when I was still 17. By mistake, it turned out. I looked a lot like another teenager they were after. You know, all us white guys look alike sort of thing.
Seemed like something Royko might have written about, except I never told anyone about it. The school’s Journalism Advisor thought it safer that I not sign the column. Think about that.