Johnny Reb and Gus Yank Berryvillin': Constitution Day 2020
Part I of XIII
“Yank?”
“Here Johnny.”
“Happy Constitution Day.”
“Again already?”
“Yup.”
“Happy Constitution Day Johnny.”
“Where’ve you been?”
“Remember that gentleman singing ‘Get Up, Stand Up’?”
“Stand up for your rights.”
“I’ve been with him.”
“You’ve been hanging with Bob Marley?”
“Bob, yeah.”
“What’d you two do?”
“He had smoke.”
“You smoked with Marley?”
“Quite a bit actually.”
“How was the smoke?”
“Sweet.”
“Sweet?”
“He said it was Jamaican.”
“Sweet indeed.”
“I thought so too.”
“How much did you smoke?”
“He had a bag.”
“Gus … it’s been nearly a year.”
“Amazingly Johnny, the bag never went empty.”
“Eternally full?”
“Overflowing even.”
“Did you and Marley talk?”
“Lots – Bob was generous in conversation too.”
“About?”
“I talked about our times, up ‘til August of ’64 … and I explained you and me and what we’re up to, the thirty Thousand and all.”
“What did Marley talk of?”
“The 1960s mostly, and Jah.”
“What’d ya think?”
“I made mention that it sounded like the 1960s could have used George Washington and the thirty Thousand.”
“They didn’t know about that spirit.”
“That’s what Bob said.”
“People now know.”
“That’s what I said.”
“What else?”
“Bob said he lived into his thirties like me.”
“True.”
“You go Johnny: what’ve you been up to?”
“Thinking about what Knowbody said.”
“Do tell Reb …”
*Next Up: 24 October and part II of the series Johnny Reb and Gus Yank Berryvillin’: Knowbody.
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