Seymour enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1940, and were my folks proud! Finally, his honorable medical discharge after five years of service. Where should he go, what should he do now that he was out? The first thing, an apartment in New York... then a job. He wanted to be a beautician, so off to a school to learn. Then came the opening of his first beauty salon. His work thrived, yet the way he lived and the way he dressed couldn't have been from his store alone. Then the story. ... a rich man was fond of him and wanted him to be like the son he never had. A married man with a family, too. There was jewelry, money, everything you could think of; and Seymour liked to flash his bank-book, showing zeros in the fours. All this the "friend" gave him. Then a chance to go to Europe... giving up his shop. . . back again after several months . . . a new shop. ... again restless . . . another "friend".

Now he's on his way to Europe once more the same story over again. Where can it lead? He's my brother. . . I love him. Where did it all start in my story? Where can it all end? I don't know ... do you?

GHOST SONG

(reply to Kendall Banning's "Once on a Time")

2.2.

It is true, the song thunders

And echoes forever

"A man loved a maid, and a maid

Loved a man."

And the melody carries from

Eon to Eon

And the strength of its voice

Fills the whole of Earth's span.

But yet, in the caverns

There rises a whisper

That sweeps the deep hollows

And haunts in the glade.

And the ache of its music

Will pulsate forever,

Of the man who loved man

And the maid who loved maid!

jody shotwell

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