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Near Bishop and Mono Lake,
the Alpine Lakes and Lodge. Summer evening in the bar. In the bubbling neon land of skyblue waters, the cowboy, having had a few too many, got up from his barstool: “I was born in Winnemucca Nevada where I grew up and went to school. Life in the desert is all I've ever known. When I was old enough, I joined the Navy to see the world! And where did they send me? I wound up stationed at the fucking Naval Meteorological Observatory In—Carson City Nevada! So I split, I'm AWOL from the Navy, and I don't give a shit!” We all applauded this and bought him another round. |
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Steve Surryhne was an Associate Lecturer in English Literature at San Francisco State University from 1993-2012. He is currently semi-retired and has recently returned to writing poetry. A native of San Francisco, he was a baby-beat in the sixties, knew some of the beat poets and is now a neo-beat. In his alternate career, he worked in Community Mental Health in San Francisco from 1979-2012. He took first place in the Jack Kerouac Poetry contest in 2015 and has published in The Blue Moon Review and Interpretations. He is currently working on a project with a photographer friend on poem-texts and photos.
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Vistas & Byways Review is the semiannual journal of fiction, nonfiction and poetry by members of Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at San Francisco State University.
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Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at San Francisco State University (OLLI at SF State) provides communal and material support to theVistas & Byways volunteer staff.
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