Clinton St. Quarterly, Vol. 8 No. 4 | Winter 1986 (Seattle) /// Issue 18 of 24 /// Master# 66 of 73

Drawing by Susan Gofs.tein AM T JBL AN M ▼ &**&**& SHWW Be a man — that is the first and last rule of the greatest success in life. Saturday Evening Post, 1905 You have many contacts Among the lumberjacks To get you facts When someone attacks Your imagination. Bob Dylan 1 don1know exactly how it happened, but somewhere in between 7th and 8th grade. Dost m y know-how. Considering the timeframe. / assume it was a bad reaction to puberty And all thatpuberty implied. I didnot catch on to the adaptationprocess, andcouldnot sail right into the nextphase o flife: budding womanhood. 1got i 30 CIJr^ s r Q [ ^ ^ caughtflailing... in the rapids. The childhood phase was a cruise. I had two best friends, Mary and Billy, and the three of us knew how to have fun. We were the quickest runners, best hitters, most effective hiders, and earliest risers on the block. That Billy was a boy had absolutely nothing to do with anything that touched our triumphant world. Then puberty slid in. And SHOOBOP,

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