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F IN E A R T
Joe Betts glanced at the tachometer mounted on his
raked and “leaded-in” ‘57 Chevrolet, dressed his
blond ducktail haircut with a delt swipe and nodded
to me.
,
,
.
"Let’s head to Rockaway. There s a dance at the
Rockaway Natatorium tonight.”
That year was the summer ol 1959, may be 60.
Joe’s Chev was the slickest, quickest, bitchinest
short mv buddies and 1 had ever seen. It glistened in
the sun like the spangliest August day, a gleaming
alabaster pavement thrasher, raked in the tiont end
and stnpped of all superfluous exterior chrome.
Churning in lront ol us was a 1959 Corvette engine,
snorting and chuffing, its Iskendarian camshaft,
ported and relieved motor, and six tw o-barrel
carburetors quivering that Chevy chassis so that it
lunged and pawed the ground like a Brahma bull as
Joe edged the clutch.
Joe and 1 were nauseatingly adolescent and
searching for the heart of Saturday night. Like the
Chev, we were tricked out, garbed in customized
period gear: Tanker jackets, pointed black brogue
shoes with huge metal taps, pegged Levis white
socks, 1 had paged dow n my perpetually frowzy
hair with some unspeakable green, viscous goop (a„
precursor of Dippity Doo) to achieve the proper "in
style. When this slimy product seized up, it could
lav down a porcupine’s quills. My head looked like
a lump of bull kelp and smelled like a urinal cookie.
We caromed down the curves of the coast
highway and entered the sleepy village ol Rockaway.
Joe idled three blocks south ol the natatorium,
stepped outside the car, and unplugged the full-
length Lakes Plugs exhaust pipes. Thunder rilled the
street. Joe climbed back in, stopped the accelerator,
banded second gear, and screamed his burning rear
tires until thev both burst simultaneously, smack in
front of the natatorium. An admiring throng of
teenagers swarmed from the dance hall awe struck..
We coolly exited the vehicle like Shoguns from the
palanquin to greet the assembled. Inside the car,
K.ISN Radio played rockabilly Eddie Cochran’s
song:
“Sometimes 1 wonder
What I’m a gonna do.
‘Cause there airi t no cure
For the Summertime Blues....”
Occasionally, 1 reflect on those years, not as
better or worse times, but perhaps simpler. The
world 1 inhabited w as naiv e and I an ingenue. Now,
in the late ‘90’s, 1 really get the summertime blues.
I .act week 1 drove my automobile through the
tourist clamor of weekend, mainstreet Cannon
Beach. The grate, crash, and abrasion of people
undid me completely. Through my windshield I
beheld a stunning prefigurement of the modern
Apocalypse as rendered by, say, Hieronymous
Bosch. Human waves sluiced down the streets,
chewing and jabbering, while vehicles lunged at their
ranks. Alarms and sirens cut the air. The belly ol
our little town was swollen with the bloat of
suburbia.
1 felt like the Indian warrior, Aijuna, who appears
in the great Hindu book, the Mahabharata. Attended
on the field of battle by Krishna, an avatar of the god
Vishnu, Arjuna begs Krishna to give him just a brief
glimpse of the universe in its totality. Krishna
consents. The vision Arjuna sees wrenches and
pummels his sensibilities. He is terrified and
devastated. I felt that way Saturday. 1 saw too
much. I saw' a time when we would be like blades of
grass trompled by buffalo. Summertime blues for
the ‘90’s and beyond. Clutch what remains to your
breasts, readers at the Edge, ‘cause the urban
steamrollers grind fine, and they’re rumbling this
way.
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Poetry
Bonita Rhinehart
iced august
it was a cold summer,
we kept blankets on the bed.
the wind blew the trees,
the curtains,
the water,
our hair.
we sat on the front porch
and watched the storms
at false dawn
and twilight.
there was an ice storm
in august, we learned to swim in the
rain,
and say, “look--there is the sun!”,
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you called at five a.m. and said,
“it’s raining.”
i did not need to ask, “so?,”
but leapt unhesitating from my bed,
threw on warm clothing,
brushed my teeth, washed my face,
and pulled the last tangle
out of my hair
just as you drove up
drinking 7-11 orange juice,
like nuns taking communion,
we drove to the ocean,
stepped out to the edge of the tide
and watched the sun throw
a silver net
through the storm’s steel gray.
ere’s no money in poetry, hut then
»re’s no poetry in money either.
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