Pip and Me
By: Charles Giuliano - Jul 16, 2022
Pip and Me
A project together
Book on growing up
In Annisquam
Dredging up the past
Deep down
Into what was
A Saturday call
Whatall and whatever
Comparing aches and pains
Eye for an eye
How’s the garden
Marveling at her words
Praise for the writing
Even compared to
Somerset Maugham
She laughed at that
Lawdie Lawd Lawd
Tales from Japan
You were so gorgeous
We all were she said
The beautiful people
Fifty years ago
So young and skinny
Sent some watercolors
With text imposed
Not from original trip
Decades later with Yuri
Bet Japan was expensive
Sure was for twelve days
Not like when I was
Just winging it
Diet of scallions
Peanut butter and
Occasional ramen
I was a wisp
Thin as a reed
Everyone in love
With you I said
Pip was hot
For pities sake
Who knew
Not like now
For cryin out loud
We should go back
To scallions and
Peanut butter
Hold the ramen
Says I with a chuckle
Too late for that now
Clinging so tight
Don't seem right
To what’s left
Blasts from the past
Fun to remember
Such adventures
Foot loose in Asia
On whim and prayer
Great to be there