local_library Funny The Things You Remember

by Walt Phillips

Published in Issue No. 20 ~ January, 1999

with my first air force
paycheck
i bought not only a carton
of camels but
a cheap record player and
an album of barrelhouse
jazz by turk murphy
and his bunch
i loved dixie and still do
i’ve given up cigarettes long since
i got married in the service
a little later on
and i still love her
but don’t have any idea what we
first
purchased together
besides food

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Walt Phillips has published "hundreds of poems and drawings throughout the small press realm and online." His artwork is currently featured in six magazines, and his poetry can be found in such magazines as Gravity, Pink and Caffeine Destiny. Walt was recently nominated for the Pushcart Prize by Chiron.