Dear Ray,
After coming here and reading so many nice things about you and the effect you've had on so many, I thought,I want to give something back to you for all the rainy days your wonderful stories made the sun shine for me anyway. So here it is, and I hope you like it... I give it to you freely. It is your poem to do with what you like.


The Electric Dreamer

By David S. Lewis


I saw you sleeping, so I crept into your dreams and laid down beside you.

You stirred, but didn't wake, as I snuggled close at your side.

My heart beat faster beside yours, but you could no longer feel it.

My tears mixed with yours, even though you thought mine were no more.

I still walk by your side everyday, even though you can no longer see me. I am there.

I just needed to be in yours arms again, in your world, at that moment, in the center of the universe, under our creators watchful eyes.

Never doubt the power of my love, with questions of how, or whys.

Remember my love is always there. Death can never extinguish it, try as it might.

My spirit will always long and wait for you, when you close your eyes at night.

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BrainSparks

Once upon a time I had feelings like that for another.

....And I recieved an elbow to the chops for it.

LMAO! I don't have those feelings for Mr. Bradbury, but I thought it might be a nice thing to write considering his recent loss of the love of his life. He is a very nice man and maybe will find some extra comfort in my poem. grasstains yer not right... LOL!

Okay, out of all the many, many, MANY which exist, perhaps the MAIN reason I really, really REALLY appreciate Ray Bradbury is, he has NEVER rejected the love I offered him! He always took ANY attention in the TRUE spirit in which it was offered! That means he not only accepted my expressions of affection warmly and graciously, he also didn't think he was being hit on when he was NOT! A TRUE gentleman I REALLY cannot appreciate ENOUGH especially in light of others whose names must not even be mentioned in the same space as his....

"especially in light of others whose names must not even be mentioned in the same space as his...."

Hunter S. Thompson?

Actually, there are authors I let alone entirely, but that's a good start.

I dig Hunter S. Thompson.

I only read one of his books, "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas." I would have read more, but my old hard drive was destroyed when Pittsburgh Flooded, and kazaa is not what it used to be when it comes to downloading books.

The book gave me a glimpse of the sixties underground culture. The fact that it was a true story is amazing.

It is such a shame that Mr. Thompson recently did a Hemingway. One wonders how depressed he must have been to end his life.

Did anyone else read of his demise?

I heard about it on the radio, then did some searches on the internet for news updates and details. He did represent a portion of our society, and while much of what he wrote about was crude, foul, drug/alcohol infested, etc., the fact is, it represented a portion of our society. He continued to take pretty liberal/radical views in a pretty unobjective way; but I still think he was an important voice for a segment of our society.

He never seemed to care much about life's consequences and he once said something about having ten lives.

Considering the way he lived, and died, that's a whole lotta consequences.

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RE: Biplane, He "did a Hemingway" how about "pulled a Charlie Gordon" or "like the Keystone Cops" or "it's a Catch 22" or "another Big Brother watching" or "he is a Real Ray Bradbury" (from TZ, of course!)

Others?

grasstain,what do you think, kick start a little life into the old grey mare!?

We've some life left in us yet!

You can have my keyboard when you pry it from my cold dead fingers.

Tea, anyone?

grasstains: You never answered a post recently...about where abouts you lived in Anaheim, in the 1970's. I worked there at the time....

I'm sorry, I never saw the post.

From 1966-1983 I mainly lived off the corner of Harbor Blvd. and La Palma Ave. four houses away from Horace Mann Elementary School on Pine St. and La Verne. It's just off the 91 frwy/Harbor exit. I lived on Lemon St. in the same area for a while, too.

I spent some time in Stanton and Ontario and I also lived in Santa Ana right behind Santa Ana High School on Walnut St.

I attended Anaheim High School on Lincoln off of Harbor and spent a year at Gilbert Continuation High School near Lincoln and Brookhurst. I moved to Sonoma CA prior to my senior year in September 1983.

Where did you live?

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grasstains:

Sheesh!
I worked on Vermont and East street, at a medium-sized printer. That was between 1976 and 1984. Usually ate lunch at the little burger shop on Anaheim Blvd. and Vermont, or at Carrows? was it...on Harbor. Or Coco's on state College, before they turned into a Carrows. I lived in Fullerton, so it was just a hop skip and jump down the 57 to work. We may have passed somewhere along the way. I was there when they tore down the downtown section of Anaheim and built everything new. And remember being there in the middle of the night as they moved all the houses on flat beds cosntructed with large timbers... down the streets to private property lots. In fact, I think I have a couple photos somewheres with all the houses set up on the timbers.

Currently I'm in Chicago.