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Wednesday, March 23, 2005

He asked if I thought he had been too hard
on the son-of-a-whore poet.

I am not one easily to let by-gones be by-gones…

But Mitch wrestled his gruffness
And said some kind words.

Mitch wrestled with yet more
than gruffness
and lost. He died.

With each sip of brandy and ginger ale
his words will speak kindness to us.


This excerpt from a eulogy for a friend was written by JJ Jameson, recently named by a local arts group Chicago’s poet of the month.

Jameson is the pen name of double murderer Norman A. Porter, Jr., who, after he escaped from prison in Massachusetts, assumed the identity of a marxisant midwestern bard. The disguise gave him, as he told the arresting officer today, “a good 20 years.”
Posted at: 3/23/2005 05:33:00 PM