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June 16th, 1975, Monday Morning
I began my first, parentally compulsory, summer job;
without which, so my parents believed, I would become a lazy slob.
"How would we explain," they asked (with handwringing), "to friends, and folks in town
"the reason for your lack of ambition if you spent the summer laying aroun'?"
Gopher on a County survey crew, surveying all sorts of roads,
as well as mosquitos, poison ivy, dog turds, and outdoor commodes.
I could not explain to my parents (who were not deep or profound thinkers)
why I would rather have laid about all day, happily leaving stinkers.
Starward-Led
