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My Neighbors in H(9^^"""'"^^^ K.CB.
I'M IN Nevada.
AS I write this.
WITH MY typewriter table.
BESIDE A window.
WHERE I may look out.
ON LAKE Tahoe. * "
AND IF I wished.
I COULD step outside.
AND THROW a'stone.
INTO CALIFORNIA.
AND IF it happens.
YOU REMEMBER* •'Lightnin'"
AND OLD Bill Jones.
FRANK BACON p'la'yed.
YOU WILL recall.' '
THE SCENE was laid.
ON THE border line.'
OF THE Reno state.
WITH ITS quick' divorce.
AND THE Golden'st'ate.
THAT LIES west'w'ar'd.
AND anyway'.
I'VE COME up here."
WITH A lot of my neighbors.
FROM HOLLYWOOD.
AND FOR three 'daVs.
AS I write this.
I'VE BEEN running around.
AS A hanger-on.
KEEPING OUT of'tlie way.
OF CAMERA men* '
AND MICROPHONES.
AND MOTOR trucks.
AND BIG sound trucks.
THE WHILE Wi'irRogers.
AMBLES AROUND.'
AS "LIGHTNIN' Bil'l.'/
AND LOUISE Dres*se'r.
WHO PLAYS Mk Jones.
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THE WIFE of Bill.
SMELLS OF h'is 'breath.
TO ASSURE h'ersel'f.
HE HAS been drinking.
OR HASN'T been."
OR WHATEVER I't is.
SHE WANTS to *know.
AND ANYWAY* *
AS I wander around.
FROM SHOT to'shot.
I THINK alwa'ys* '
OF MY friend Frank Bacon.
WHO DREAMED 'out "Lightnin"'
UP HERE in the'hills.
OF THE High'Si'erra.
WHERE WE a're'now.
AND AFTER a lifetime.
ON THE stage'. *
TROUPING a'bOUT.
THROUGH ONE night stands.
AND HIS hair grown white.
AND HIS gent'le'fa'ce.
MARKED WITH t'he years.
THAT HAD come to him.
TOOK HIS manuscript.
AND THE hopes* he held.
FOR "LIGHTNI*n' Bill.'"'
AND CARRIED 'them back.
TO NEW York t'own.
AND SOMETI'm'eS dreams.
REALLY DO come true.
AND FRANK ''S dream did.
AND ON a night. '
AT THE Gaiety '
AND THE usual crowd.
THAT COMES to see.
ANOTHER FAILURE.
OR BY kind fo'rt'un'e.
A SUCCESS perhaps.
THIS UNKNOWN actor. TO THE most of them.
unheralde'd' '
• • •
AND TO fame unknown.
ADDED THE name.
OF "LIGHTNIN' Bill."
TO THE famous roles.
OF AMERICA's'stage.
AND THOSE of 'us'.
WHO HAD known Frank.
THROUGH His'w'andering days.
AND THERE were" a few.
WHO SAT out* front.
ON HIS opening night.
WE CRIED a I'itt'lel
IN THE joy of it* '
AND ANYWAY* *
• • •
IT WAS Frank's big night. AND FOR three 'years. HE STAYED right' there. AT THE Gaiety * ' LOOKING FORWARD. ALL THE time. TO TAKING Bifl.' OUT INTO the \Ve'st. WHENCE HE 'had 'come. BUT HE didn't get there. FOR ON the way. " HIS LAST call'ca'm'e. BUT IF it is. HE CAN look'ba'ck. I THINK perhaps. ' HE WILL be giad." THAT WE'RE* a'l up here. IN THE hills he'o'ved. AND THAT Bill'jones. IS BACK again. WHERE HE was' born. I THANK you!