ONCE A LITTLE SILENT, NOW AN OLDER ONE

 There was a beginning to The Silent Boomer who would like to write one book that sells before he dies. When he was born, he was pronounced to be the largest baby born to the smallest woman in Miami Valley Hospital history. When he was one year old, he won a contest to decide the most beautiful baby. By the time he was 30, his life was disintegrating around his ears, his hopes and 

dreams dissolving before his blood shot eyes. During that time, he was declared to the biggest baby by his fellow graduate students at Southern Illinois University.

Now, many decades later, he stands before a couple of shelves of his collected writing, magazines and anthologies his work has appeared in, and books, chapbooks and microzines that his friends and acquaintances have appeared in. Happy enough, married at last to a woman he is actually present for nearly every day of his life, he peers out from the photo with a hopeful smile on his kisser.