Episode 22: Roto-gyroman Chapter Two

(Immersive Verse series)

1963: Beach Boys, pre-Beatles

Gyroboy: pre-adolescence

Down in the cellar, one day, discovers mom’s old wringer/washer

Rolled back in a corner. Out of water. Out of order.

Instinctively, he climbs aboard, puts her into light drive!

Gyro: on wringer/washer that day, escaping the basement, takes to the sky!!

The same summer in our backyard, my brother is overheard

Firing ammo from out a clutch of tennis balls

At a strike zone [pow-boing] he’s painted up on

Our garage wall, one-by-one, fastballs [Pow-boing]

Honing his curves; learning ways to paint

All 4 quadrants of the zone [pow-boing]

My brother and me: brimming with pre-Beatlemania chi ...