Thanks to the annual Super Bowl Sunday Buy One Get One Free sale at Books Etc. in Laguna Hills, the works of Bellow, Borges, Bukowski, Brautigan, Cheever, Eco, Grace Paley, Dennis Potter, Pynchon, Robbe-Grillet, Philip Roth and Tom Wolfe have found their way onto my bookshelf for a capital outlay of only 32 dollars American.
Will you come to see me Jack
When I’m old and very shaky?
Yes I will for you’re my dad
And you’ve lost your last old lady
Though you traveled very far
To the highlands and the badlands
And ripped off the family car
Still, old dad, I won’t forsake you.Will you come to see me Jack?
Though I’m really not alone.
Still I’d like to see my boy
For we’re lonesome for our own.
Yes I will for you’re my dad
Though you dumped me and my brothers
And you sizzled down the road
Loving other fellows’ mothers.Will you come to see me Jack?
Though I look like time boiled over.
Growing old is not a lark.
Yes I will for you’re my dad
Though we never saw a nickel
As we struggled up life’s ladder
I will call you and together
We will cuddle up and see
What the weather’s like in Key West
On the old-age home TV.
