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ME AND MY RADIO

My love affair with the radio
began such a long time ago,
before the days of NPR
and classical music on FM.
It began rather innocently,
as I recall,
with a kit that came in a box,
trying so very hard
to get all the pieces to fit,
an early electronic wonder
that brought just a few stations in.

Then graduating to transistors
and earphones and batteries,
Elvis and Beethoven
my constant companions
with summertime
Mets baseball thrown in.
I should have been studying
and doing my math,
my parents reminded me,
but I was too busy listening
to what came out of that box
to pay any attention
to what they said.

There were all kinds of tunes
that made my heart sing,
the sad ones,
the glad ones,
the classics
and the fads,
ones I could sing to
in the shower
out of tune;
the ones
I could dance to
all alone
in my room.

And throughout the years
our secret love affair
has blossomed and grown,
that love affair that began
such a long time ago
between me
and my radio.

(c) barbara kausteklis 8-12-12

Written for CPC “Magic Monday/The Magic of Radio.”

http://www.friendburst.com/blog/94441/magic-radio/

And my love affair with the radio in all its new transformations and forms continues.