10/05/06 1301-1319hrs

Mickey Rooney and Oz whose also
the last of the old school telegraphists
hand-eating coconut cream
& apple in the back office at night,
Mickey, 15 , high-necked Cruikshank collar
his version of turn-of-the-century normal
means each gesture is unpacked
in a series of boxes wrapped in tissue:
how nice to see the great ones "underplay"--
and leave off of Tim Holt by the way
his Georgie is what you're really like
and I'm really like lets face it--
pontificating with our mouths full of pie
as traffic and progress darken the sky.