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After Reading R. Cooperman’s, That Summer

Alan Catlin

Of 1970
Unemployed
recent college graduate
draft eligible
a long-haired
loser

Wife six months
pregnant
taking Grad Ed courses
to avoid the draft

Expecting change in
selective service
classification-status
any day,
followed by dreaded
Appear for a Physical Notice:

“Greetings and Salutations”

the way those letters from
The Draft Board began,
a strange way to appear
personal and not a Vietnam
death sentence

Living in no jobs Utica, N.Y.
Using spare time to finally
read Ulysses
write bad poetry
worse prose

Living on checks from home
and public assistance
No future plans made
None possible

Applying to full time
grad school in another city
anything had to be better
than this

It wasn’t

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