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Chapter 1:
Just for Fun: A Poem Dedicated to the Rowdy Friends of my Youth
(by Wayne Spitzer, added on October 10, 2003)
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"Dedication"
by Wayne Spitzer
I was born in Spokane, Washington -- but didn't spend much of my youth there. This one's for the rowdy gang in my real home-town:
For King Kong and Godzilla
For Mothra, Rodan and Ghidora
For Sunday afternoon Creature Features
and plastic model kits
from Aurora
For Schieder, Shaw and Dreyfuss singing:
"Show me the way to go home..."
For Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock and Turok:
Son of Stone
For "The Nightmare at Twenty Thousand Feet"
and a Gremlin on the wing
For Cornelius and Zira and their son, Caesar:
The Once
and Future
King
For Ray Bradbury and "A Sound Like Thunder"
For "The Foghorn" and "Dandelion Wine"
For "Monster Meals" at A&W:
"Frankenstein is really fine!"
For "Repent, Harlequin! Said the Tick-tock Man"
And also "For Whom the Bell Tolls"
For poor, mad Elric of Melnibone
And Stormbringer:
Stealer of Souls
For Christopher Pike and his Doctor and
the starship in which they were flying
For "Doctors and Bartenders getting the same 2
types of customers:
The Living
and the dying."
For green animal women and dancing blue flowers
and the ghost ship, "Fortune Dane"
For all those moments
lost in time
Like an android's tears
in rain
Now my parents were perfectly normal and kind:
Mom in her kitchen
Dad in his den
But I learned more from these rowdy friends
than I ever learned
from them
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