1.
We've heard lots of names here
Tonight but I'll tell you one name
We have not heard which is the
Name of Slobodnik who was
The janitor at the high school
Where I worked and one day
He said swimming is good for
You because swimming gets
The crud out of your pores so
I have not forgotten his words
Spoken around 1975 just like
Neither have I ever forgotten
The line “Here a scarf flies,
There an excited call is heard.”
2.
We have heard a lot of names
But one name we have not heard
Yet is Smolarek the math teacher
I used to play basketball with
And he always won but once
I won so the next week he won
Again and he stated how he
Wanted to win that day so he
Did not fuck his wife last night
Or that morning either in 1975
Which I remember so clearly like
”Whose wind is desire starching
A petal, whose disappointment
Broke into a rainbow of tears.”
3.
The last name we have not heard is
Greene and how in 1965 we were on
The drill field with Greene screaming
Supplementary get your goddamn
Ass out here where the fuck shit is
Supplementary get your slack ass
Out here Supplementary and we
Had no idea what he was yelling
About because nobody was named
Supplementary and then somehow
It dawned on everybody at once like
A miracle that he meant Sulloway
Which I have never forgotten like
”Now I let you go, signed The Dwarf.”
Brilliant, and very funny!
Posted by: Terence Winch | June 07, 2025 at 08:20 AM