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Sentry Billy B.<\/strong><\/p>\n Good dope kept <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tom McDade<\/strong> is 68 year-old retired computer programmer living in Fredericksburg with his wife, no kids, no pets.\u00a0 Graduate of Fairfield University, he served two tours of duty in the U.S. Navy.\u00a0 His poems have most recently appeared in Release Magazine, Gadfly <\/em>and Paragraphiti.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sentry Billy B. Good dope kept Viet Cong on white chargers at bay while on guard duty, seeds for poems about Rimbaud, etc. fell from saddlebags said Billy B. Slight of build, no nose for the specs he wore so always frame poking. His faded fatigue jacket celebrated nothing but survival […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8059"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8062,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8059\/revisions\/8062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nViet Cong on white
\nchargers at bay while
\non guard duty,
\nseeds for poems
\nabout Rimbaud, etc.
\nfell from saddlebags
\nsaid Billy B.
\nSlight of build, no nose
\nfor the specs he wore
\nso always frame poking.
\nHis faded fatigue jacket
\ncelebrated nothing
\nbut survival and good
\ndeep pockets perfect
\nfor contraband.
\nNo one on campus could
\nroll joints with such skill
\nwith the dash and \u00e9lan
\nof a screen cowpoke
\nfashioning a legal stick.
\nLater teaching fancy
\nprep school English
\nhis poetry and tales of dope
\nmight have been visible
\nin his busy, haunted eyes
\nor stolen from
\nfrom his rucksack..
\nThat look or the awe
\non looted legal pad pages
\nreeled in unruly buy isotretinoin india<\/a> classes
\nso expertly they checked
\ntheir pockets and purses
\nfor missing wallets
\nafter a poke at the specs
\nand an easy erasure
\nof textbook words
\nas charger chalky
\noff the blackboard
\nlong and green
\nas Billy B. recalled
\nsmacking erasers
\ntogether as a kid
\nand the muffled waste
\ngood dope made
\nof war noise.<\/p>\n