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My Ne/ghb
in Ho
OrS By
ood K.C.B.
HERE I am.
FAR UP on the hills.
WHERE MARK Twain cabined.
IN HIS mining days.
AND BRET Harte roamed.
AND GATHERe'd things.
TO BE put in books.
FOR THE world'to read.
AND I come here.
JUST TO get away.
FOR A little while.
FROM MY neighbor folk.
DOWN IN HOLLYWOOD.
AND WHAT do I find.
BUT A couple of troupes.
OF PICTURE actors.
WITH THEIR big sound trucks.
AND EVERYTHING.
AND I beat it higher.
UP INTO the hil'ls."
AND AS I flee.
ON MY upward way.
THE ONLY person.
1 RECOGNIZE. '
IS NORMAN Kerry.
ALL DRESSED I'p.
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LIKE A mountaineer. AND I yell at him. AND HURRY on. AND AS I go 1 FIND myself. CHOOSING LOCATIONS. FOR PICTURE scenes. A MOUNTAIN meadow.
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WITH A purple mat. OF SPRINGtime flowers. FOR BILLIE DoCe. IN A purple hat. TO WANDER through. AND FARTHER*on. A CRAGGY point. FOR GEORGE O'Brien. IN A silhouette. AGAINST THE sky. WATCHING FOR rangers. WHO ARE chasing him. AND ANOTHER point. WHERE LARRY* Tibbett. COULD SING hi's head ofl^. IF HE wanted to. AND THEN a spot. FOR WALLY Beery. AND MAYBE Ote Harlan. AND ERNEST Torrence. WITH A week of whiskers. AND A mulligan. STEWING AND*steaming. FOR THEIR midday meal. AND THEN a cottage. AGAINST THE hill. WHERE ONCE on a time. A MINER dwelt* AND A rose bush planted. AND THE cottage hidden. BY A blaze of pink. AND JANET Gaynor. WISTFULLY WATCHING. FOR WHOMSOEVER.
SHE WAS expecting. AND THEN a village. OF THE mining days. AND LIFE still in it. AND ITS one main street. ■ NOT YET knowing.
OF prohibitio'n.
AND THE Volstead act.
AND A cloud of dust.
AND AN old stage coach.
AND WILLIAM*PoweII.
STEPPING OUT'of it.
AND YOU know very well.
HE IS a detective.
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OR A wicked man
COME TO do dirt.
AND SO we drive on.
PICKING OUT* places.
THE BOY and I *
FOR OUR Hollywood neighbors.
TO DO their stuff.
AND RIGHT on*the road.
UP AHEAD of us.
WE SEE a bear. *
AND THE boy grows excited.
AND THE bear disappears.
AND THEN the boy figures.
IT WOULD have* been fine.
IF THE bear had attacked us.
AND ALL of a sudden.
BILL HART would have come.
AND SHOT it to* death.
OR MAYBE have choked it.
WITH HIS two big hands.
I THANK you'