I've returned to the present: must be said however that my notes were written in
pencil at first. And then as the day went on I refocused on them,doing a bit of changeroo. The flood/a poem on the editorial page of the Forum/an almost poem/
not a badass poem/a Rodney Nelson letter/He's an accomplished translator too/
but that was thirty years ago work/and worked I cheered/Well no matter what you
believe finally he's a writer/a North Dakota writer.? He's getting up there in years/

In Mac and Don's a 62 year old man has a fifties style hairdoo. So for starters I guessed he was around 67,well I was off the mark...

He approaches me and says: you know that building going up by Gardner? Why?
They won't have any place for the people there to park...What about all the people
coming at night to the clubs downtown,where are they going park? After this he
quits talking,though finally he tells me that he filled sandbags during the flood of
1997...But not this year.