The long good bye to Blackie (Saturday, 11 August.1)

Blackie was clearing out his crib* ‘cept ‘fer the bedding and a Mac, and a few of us were enlisted to get it done; Rocky, Ian, and mattorluke joined Blackie and Iverson in the cleansing operation. It was a tuff battle: first Blackie and then Iverson were felled by the hostile conditions on the battlfield. They were shipped to the rear for some much needed R & R. They would need strength for later transportation operations to ship the goods to their other front. There was constant breaks for water, and late in the game there was a unilateral stoppage to all work while all rested and ‘X if they got’m.’ Instead of the usual K rations, we Soldiers of the Move were fed Superpizza, supped up and slobbered over until our aardvark like feeding snouts were sated.
It’s getting close. Blackie was a Connecticut boy back first summer I knew him, but otherwise all Chicago, and now he’s leaving**. It sucks for us, but he’s wanted to move someplace other for the last 15y- there was the K.C. Plan, the Near the Orange Line Plan, the Austin Plan, and now; completion.

To verse we take....

Lost Rocky, Scotty, and Ian
Drax and beautiful Julie Ann
After Vito and Vampdon now follows
Blackie to some similar Otherland

So, a short list, but lots of people have gone*** but also come back. I am planning to visit them one of these days****- plans are to take a bus- one of those cheap lines that cost one $ - and read the whole way down. Well, lets get them moved first.
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*=we gave her most of our lives
**=sacrificed most of out lives
***=we gave her everything money could buy

****=bad Pink Floyd !!