LOCATION: Jackson, MIssissippi
PERIOD: 2023
DRAMATIS PERSONAE: Levi Hooper (1973); Lucy Cooper (1980-2015)
Outside of Jackson, Mississippi, fall of 2022. Levi Hooper, approaching his fifitieth birthday, lives alone and is satisfied with his solitary life. But thoughts of Lucy Cooper still haunt the corners of his mind.
I START EACH DAY WITH COFFEE
(F. D. Leone, Jr.)
I start each day with coffee
At night a double shot of rye
In between I do my best
To just get by
A masterpiece is the sunrise
The golden moon is poetry
I love livin’ in this cabin
It’s got everything I need
Each day may seem the same
But they are infinitely not
Tiny ripples on the surface
Reflect the hand of God
I love the first days of October
The crisp clean air of fall
Kicking through a drift of dry leaves
Firdaa nights high school football
I’ll chop a little oak and ash
For burning in my stove
Hunt and fish in the evening
Down in my cedar grove
Each day may seem the same
But they’re infinitely not
Tiny ripples on the surface
Reflect the hand of God
Sometimes I think of Lucy
Those memories still are mine
After all these years
There’s still feelings I can’t define
I start each day with coffee
At night a double shot of rye
In between I do my best
To just get by
© 2022 Frank David Leone, Jr./Highway 80 Music (ASCAP). The songs and stories on the Highway 80 Stories website are works of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.
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