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Radio Days
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18 raDio DayS for MarkJ.Weaver My father has a pcture of me taken around the tme Charle Parker ded. I am sttng up lke a prnce, erect, brght, smlng. I have promse around my head woven n vnes of gold, but ths s not n the pcture. I remember rado from then, checkng the paper for my shows. My father had a habt of brngng home toys to me, small thngs on days he got pad. It was a reward for beng firstborn and beng a son. I was supposed to make the future a safe place. I had to kll the lon. I look at my son and my brother. I look at my father. The four of us are a crcut where the current s a stream of hope & fear, floatng, gong back, lvng and not lvng. We hold up our hands and dreams fly out of them, brds of blue electrc. ...