Writing Roots 6 - College Bound
Writing Roots 6 - College Bound
This is the sixth “episode” of the prequel to The World of Words by Elias Tobias. It ends when I arrive at Ball State University at Edwards Hall for my freshman year of my bachelor’s degree. By the end of the senior year of high school, I was using a pen name, Olan dey Gabona, and used that until the early 1990’s. I had started making 5 x 8 inch notebooks I was assembling with typed poems I wanted to keep starting from high school and beginning at college. They have a brown cover, and I have six of them now. They were books that had pages with pre- punched sheets and I added the typed poems as they were written.
After a year or so, I would begin a new “book.” My first three books had to be retyped in 1980 when the woman I was engaged to at the time decided to keep the original books after we decided not to get married. At least I got $25 for a $225 engagement ring at the pawnshop in Columbus, Ohio, on my way back to Millersburg, Ohio, where I was working as a journalist. A life lesson. I hope she enjoys the books and looks at them every now and then. Below is a poem from my first “college years” book that was published in The Free Pen, Vol. 1, No. 3, a literary supplement to the Ed-Words, the Edwards Hall news letter. I see a trend here.
I Don’t Know
Strange places flashing smiling faces,
And I don’t know where to go.
Fun loving times are somewhere in between
The lines of the people I see.
I open my heart wide
And get what I can get.
Somehow, I keep living,
But I can’t believe in
Anything yet.
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