---------------------------------------------------------------
        PROBLEMS?  Please try viewing this with Netscape Navigator.
---------------------------------------------------------------


                                             Dharma Bum
                                            by Alan Catlin

                              He drank
                              life from
                              easy chug
                              a mug 
                              bottles 
                              throwing
                              the empties
                              off the porch 
                              onto the over
                              grown lawn
                              lighting
                              white filter
                              tipped cigars
                              with stick 
                              matches he
                              struck on
                              the peeling
                              railing paint or
                              on the sagging
                              floor boards
                              when the railing 
                              was too far
                              away to reach
                              listening to
                              ball games
                              in the out
                              of tune radio
                              plugged into
                              the frayed
                              extension cord
                              the wife and
                              kiddies going 
                              by without
                              comment one
                              way or the other
                              about what might
                              be happening in
                              his life like
                              he was some kind
                              of animated lawn
                              ornament the weeds
                              hadnÕt gotten 
                              to yet.


---------------------------------------------------------------
-For more poems, type
http://www.dejanews.com/
into your browserÕs ÒLocationÓ window. Press your ÒreturnÓ key.
Click on ÒPower SearchÓ in the middle of the screen.
Find the box labelled ÒMain ArchiveÓ.
Change ÒMain ArchiveÓ to ÒComplete ArchiveÓ.

Next, do you see a blank box labelled ÒPower SearchÓ ?
Type in:  roller666@earthlink.net   in the blank box on the screen
   that has ÒPower SearchÓ written next to it.
Click on ÒfindÓ (the button to the right of the box).

-Or search using:  roller39@idt.net


Dharma Bum is copyright 1998 by Alan Catlin