Summer 2002

Three times lacking occupation for multiple minutes
One trip barreling down the line
Five weeks immersed in frog soup
One cherished meeting made all mine

Twenty years older than my beginnings
Four visits longer to our club
Two weekends as a foreign dignitary
Five weeks showing up a wash tub

Thirty-two hours of watched television
Ninety-six pages: a single read book
Two purchases of survival meals
One set of rocks that I took.

Numerous acquired friends and enemies
Unforgettable homemade Quebec meals
One last chance at small town living
Made Summer two thousand and two truly real.