Working Numbers

A more expressive list than of my achievements is of the occupations of men I know. These are just some of them:

1. Er ist passiert.

2. Israeli, army, b. 1963, now residing in Vegas.

10. National Guardsman/salesman, Lieutenant Colonel, b. 1960.

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3. Composer/musician, book and music dealer, b. 1950.

4. Curator of Doc Films, U of Chicago

5. Manic-depressive scholar named not after but coinciding with the name of a TV evangelist, howling porch

6. Married now and teaching, poet who suggested Houston, Irish balladeer

7. Archangel, Poet/songwriter/artist/musician/construction worker/historical renovation technician, b. 1956.

8. German ex-con tax evader last removed to Vegas

9. Poet/Brigham Young MBA, b. 1966.

11. Sports reporter, cookie ajar snatcher

12. Baby of the family, pot-smoking Hurricane Hugo watcher

13.Man with the long hair

14. Renaissance doctor, Mike

15. Hockey player/bookseller/radio broadcaster/teacher, b. 1956.

16. Jerome Washington, Right to Write

17.N.A. poet (what's that?)

18. lyric poet surrealist, fine featured

19. Working magazine writer

20. One-night wrong carpenter

21.Genius lost writer, successful professor

22. Iowa poet who brought me my 29th birthday

23.P.S. of 2 in Hoss Men, Garrison

24. Teacher of children missing one testicle due to cancer

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25. Bar founder

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26. Novelist and literary critic

27. Royal Shakespeare Actor

34. Sculptor

35. Rock musician, b. 1960.

Construction foreman, b. 1954.

44. Radio talk show host, b. 1950.

45. Motorcycle salesman/photographer, b. 1956

Avant gardenist, b. 1957.

50. Millionaire/Poet, b. 1957.

51. Geography professor, b. 1950.

52. Pastor, b. 1949.

53. Professional foosball player/maintenance worker, b. 1968.

64. Where I belong

66. Guitar player, nurse anesthesticist
67. Baseball player

Of those, nos. 3, 15, 26, 35, 44, and 50 wanted to marry me. I wanted to marry 3, 7, 15, 35, 44, and 50. I should have asked 45 to marry me as my first proposal. I intend to copy down these numbers and use them for lotto. 45 and 35 got married later and divorced. 15 and the sculptor, I think, never got married. No. 9, the actor, and the foreman got and stayed married. 26, a novelist, told me much later, "If someone hasn't been married by 38, something is wrong with them." What was wrong with us -- no. 15 and me? We might have made a good, tall couple. What numbers go I?

(March 5, 2006, updated February 26, 2014)