tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4481641155063657192.post2933781507856115988..comments2024-03-13T06:35:22.913-07:00Comments on POETRY PACIFIC: 2 Poems by Buff Whitman-Bradleypoetrypacific.blogspot.cahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14560551510300869695noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4481641155063657192.post-59455991327612944212015-06-15T13:52:12.537-07:002015-06-15T13:52:12.537-07:00Buff, I hope you see this. I just turned 58...and...Buff, I hope you see this. I just turned 58...and for all my life, I have remembered a poem i read when I was a teenager called "Drunk on a bicycle" that I just loved...about a guy pedaling home at night, through the suburbs, talking to Buddha, with this bike going "hmmm squeak hmmm squeak"...I was talking with my husband (just-married!) about it a few months ago, and was just going through a box of "treasures" from my childhood...and -- !!!-- one of the 'treasures" was a chapbook called "WPA 2" that cost 25-cents that was published by the Palo Alto Cultural Center (in those halcyon, pre-PC days...sigh). And I just ran in and read it aloud to my husband (who was a zen Buddhist for years, studied with Alan Watts, etc.). He is also a poet -- and he just loved it. As did I. It is even BETTER than I remembered. So, I just want you to know that for...oh, 40 years, one of your poems has graced and enhanced my life...and for that I thank you most sincerely.<br />Cheers, S. Leigh FryAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com