Ohiopyle, Pennsylvania circa early 1970'S

(just in time for end of summer reading...
recounting emotionally disastrous campy turbulence)
intended food for thought indulgence.

that caused me animatedly to shiver

snuffing out potential fortitude

gained late in mein kampf,

whereat yours truly a creaky giver

even scores of years later deliver
to sender nowhere to be found.

This predisposition prevailed despite

punishing revenge didst stamp excite

me inducing suppressed

giddiness to take flight

against self toward parents,

whose puny singular offspring

smallish in stature of height

who did light,

a conspiratorial idea
countered meek self spite

compared to their hefty might
forced me to attend ("dumb")

sleep away camp
for about a fortnight

whereupon, being dropped off "bright"

brainchild idea awoke around edge

of night bordering my consciousness,
where figurative dark shadows

courtesy Molly Hatchet cleft a wedge

vis a vis, an immediate

avowed personal pledge

sworn against experiencing even

one iota of fun (a ha...so there) ledge

er domain mental prestidigitation

could not dredge

countervailing loathsomeness naysaying fun

in any weigh, shape or form

pertaining to this sole son
but, matter of fact

adventuresome giddiness gave run

for metaphorical psychological money,
and much to my chagrin

gleefulness didst stun

into silence malevolent

anti yippee surge

crept into the noggin of this

chaim yankel and could not purge
this meta static Grinch,

who could not steal away

euphoria that inevitably didst emerge

unable to root out,

and suppress nemesis
flitting hither and yon to and fro
fomenting misery, but an inescapable glow
manifested when father

and mother end of Jeff session

came back, and said "hello"
when, and I immediately

replied with emphatic "NO"

in regard to having a good time oh
mitt ting like a lump pin pro

let tarry yet exerting will

power to asphyxiate

a faint bubbling of attraction

toward a darker skinned

slender cute teen age girl
though at that stage

oblivious how to create
friendship, thus aye

vividly recall to this date

hopscotched potential summer romance

which induces regret to emanate

cursing forsaken ill fate
now, feel deplorable

for stifling relationship

slid into behavioral sink (of this got
ham) fore'r tortured

within iron barred heaven's gate.