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<\/p>\nEditor’s Note: One of those “future news” stories floated by in the stream yesterday that made us shake our heads. Apparently the Harley-Davidson Management has released a press note indicating they are going to go “all electric” to power their magnificent fossil-fueled two-wheeled rockets. We are with Marlow on the Fatboy of yesterday, powered the way they were! Oh, in light of the news about classified documents scattered across the nation’s capital region, Marlow has thoughtfully included unclassified reminders at the head and foot of this unclassified (but sensitive) verse.<\/p>\n
-Vic<\/p>\n
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May 2001<\/p>\n
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Farewell<\/strong><\/p>\n My Old Town Alexandria, South Lee Street neighbors, settled and successful professionals and business owners, looked at my trip as an admixture of mild midlife crisis and mega-stupidity.<\/p>\n Save one or two, none had traveled as extensively, foreign or domestic, let alone deployed to the weird, wooly and wild places associated with the US military.\u00a0It came as a surprise to me and Steve to be f\u00eate\u2019d the night before our departure with an impromptu front stoop wine party.\u00a0\u00a0One across-the-street ponytailed neighbor, CB,\u00a0\u00a0honored us with penning and reciting the following:<\/p>\n In the hours past midnight, the moon at my back . . . Or perhaps an elliptical adverbial construction This moment needs couplets on the fame he\u2019ll enjoy As spring turns to summer and allergies flare Ah, the romance of riding throughout the day We envy his freedom of riding throughout the day Copyright \u00a9 2001 and 2023 From My Aisle Seat Editor’s Note: One of those “future news” stories floated by in the stream yesterday that made us shake our heads. Apparently the Harley-Davidson Management has released a press note indicating they are going to go “all electric” to power their magnificent fossil-fueled two-wheeled rockets. We are with Marlow on the Fatboy of yesterday, powered the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-island-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25307,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25302\/revisions\/25307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nI was searching for what rhymes with Jack Kerouac
\nSome pithy subjunctive supporting tales to be told
\nBy Marlow on his return from being \u201cOn the Road.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nThat links to something about his Harley Davidson.
\nWe need a song, an ode quite specific
\nFor our South Lee Street rider off to find the Pacific.<\/p>\n
\nTooling around Tulsa on his sleek red \u201cFatboy\u201d\u00a0\u00a0. . .
\nHis tour of the heartland, the rich earth beneath,
\nThe blue sky above . . . the bugs in his teeth . . .<\/p>\n
\nWe\u2019ll think of our Marlow, motorcycling out there
\nWhere vistas are grand, and sunsets are fine
\nAnd the wine tastes like slightly used turpentine.<\/p>\n
\nThe nights filled with ADVIL and tubes of BEN-GAY.
\nThe tales of landmarks and vistas so nice
\nThe aches and the pains and the bags filled with ice.<\/p>\n
\nWe\u2019ll have to make do with Sutton Place Gourmet
\nWhere we\u2019ll think of him wherever he may roam
\nTill we raise a glass and welcome him home<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/012423-LIT2-e1674587598571.jpg\")
\nFarewell stoop wine party of the South Lee Street Irregulars<\/p>\n
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