The Beatles Live- Michelle My Belle:
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It Got Better, But Then I Fucked It Up. (As Usual) And if You are Assuming, Presuming, It Was Physical Abuse, Then You Are Deluded. And Have Not ‘Read’ Me—It Was ‘Neglect’ On My Part: Michelle Expected More From Me Than I Was Capable of Giving. That Was It. I am An Idiot! I Threw Away The Love of A Good Woman and a Kindred Spirit. She Was My Chance to Grasp That Brass Ring! A Military Woman–Whom I Respected! A True Patriot! And A Bona-Fide Sailor! And Like A Fool, I Just Let Her Walk Away.
I Know This Photo Below Is A Brit She-Sailor,
But I Love Her Face
And
She Is ALMOST As Beautiful
As
“My Michelle”
Michelle, ma belle
These are words that go together well
My Michelle
Michelle, ma belle
Sont les mots qui vont tres bien ensemble
Tres bien ensemble
I love you, I love you, I love you
That’s all I want to say
Until I find a way
I will say the only words I know that you’ll understand
Author’s Note:
This Was Yet Another Relationship That I Managed to Mangle & Fuck Up.
&
Let Her Slip Away
Yes! I Have Regrets!
In The Recruit Training Command at That time There Was A Volunteer Program We Could “Volunteer” For. It Was Called “Saturday Scholars” One Could Get Out of Saturday Duty if one Signed Up.
Michelle and I Signed Up.
The ‘Program’ Was to go to The Inner-City Ghettos of Chicago and Tutor Poor Black Kids. Michelle and I Were actually Very Sincere About This ‘Work’ and We Bonded Every Saturday as we rode the Bus To Chicago. We Wanted to do Good Work–Serve The Community–Honourably Represent Our Navy.
Which We Both Loved Equally
I loved her very much–Even More Than The Navy
We Were Cut From The Same Cloth, I Thought, but as I said,
I Eventually Managed to Fuck That Up Somehow
I am very Good In This Regard
Call me An ‘Overachiever’ If You Must
South Park: In the Ghetto:
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Elvis Presley – In the Ghetto
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Dateline: Late 1985
Time: 0800 hrs.
Geographical Location: Great Mistakes Naval Training Center—Just south of Chicago.
Venue: A Navy Auditorium
Suspect: One Ricky-Recruit, AKA
“Marcom-The Moron”
*Slips now into first-person narrative*
I had arrived just a little later than was prudent.
Hence, no seats in the back of the venue.
Searched about. Scanning…
Only open seats were in the front row.
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I took myself up-front, found a seat next to a serious-looking blond she-sailor, decked out in freshly pressed dress blues. AJ-Squared-Away, she was.
Old Military / Sailor Saw: “Never sit up front and never volunteer for nothin.“
I had already broken the first rule. I was about to Break The Second…
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I was in dungarees—not pressed. Certainly not ‘AJ-Squared away’… slightly hung-over, if I am aiming at honest narrative here.
‘Under-Dressed’ does not even come close.
I had plopped down to her starboard.
Risked a look at her.
(I had already lost myself in her eyes)
She sensed my gaze, looked me dead in my eye and said,
“What are you staring at Sailor? Hi. My name is Michelle. What’s yours?” She said as she extended her hand.
I shook her hand and was surprised to experience a very firm grip/handshake.
A Naval Officer took to the old, very old wooden podium and began his spiel, trying to sell us on ‘Saturday Scolars.’ and drag out some volunteers.
Michelle went Eyes-Front: Intensely paying serious Military Attention.
I did not.
I kept gazing at her…
To the point of being too obvious.
Oh! And BTW, it did not escape me that she was a 3rd Class Petty Officer.
And an ‘ET–Electronics Techincian’
An E-4
She seriously ‘out-ranked’ me–in Brains and Beauty
And, obvious to me:
Out-Classed me.
In the Nav, we called them ‘IPO’s
“Instant Petty Officer”
If you Graduate from the ‘Right Navy School,’ you are auto-magically promoted.
I was, my own self, enrolled in such a school, but the successful end game—of MY Graduation—was tenuous at best.
Not my intent to bash Y’all over the head with a not-so-subtle…
But this do serve my narrative.
Serves it well…
Well….
Credit: Ethereal Music
To be continued…