Ohiopyle, Pennsylvania Circa Early 1970'S

(just in time for summer reading...
recounting emotionally disastrous campy turbulence)

 

Amidst a raft of fellow (Brandywine Valley

Y.M.C.A) resident campers

who, didst excitedly quiver

donning a "NON FAKE" lifejacket

coursing down swiftly

moving Youghiogheny river

(evidenced by small hairs along spine),

that caused me animatedly to shiver

this predisposition prevailed despite

punishing revenge didst stamp excite

me inducing suppressed

giddiness to take flight

against self toward parents,

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 my consciousness,

where figurative 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 foe

men ting 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 empatic "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

hop scotched 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 gate.