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Article: The Life and Times of George Van Den Heuvel.(Poem)
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- Ploughshares
- Article date:
- December 22, 2007
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The Life and Times of George Van Den Heuvel
What ever happened to George Van den Heuvel,
carbuncled waiter extraordinaire
who hazed me relentlessly the year
I turned sixteen and took my first job as a waitress
at Le Bistro, Lubbock's only bona fide French cafe?
Why George Van den Heuvel proposed marriage
on my first day was never clear, nor why
he celebrated our engagement with bewildered customers
even after he took my no with grace
and offered me one year to change my mind.
Every day on every table I set a vase
that held a single carnation feathered pink with dye
and considered the criteria by which
I might determine ...
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