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Goodbye to James
Garner
Fans loved him as
Rockford, Maverick,
a man’s man, had your back, cool,
did the right thing. I loved him
for being Doris Day’s husband
in a movie I cut class to see,
5th grade, played at the Riviera,
only old men and me during the day,
went alone told no one, but I had a gigantic
crush on him, he was an ob/gyn,
she was a mom, marriage in jeopardy,
couples in movies stayed together in the sixties
while out there it was all falling apart,
women poised to flip their lives, months away
from marching into a world of miniskirts, riots,
shame, pill box hats, flinging our boxy pink suit jackets
and pumps into the sunset, not even James Garner
could have saved us, and this week, now, more unrest
more wars unfolding, I’m stuck on the headline
James Garner Dead. When I was ten I needed a man
I could count on – even one holding aces and eights. |
