Ronald Jermakian

Happy Birthday, Herbert!

Are you still a boxing fan? Whenever there's a heavyweight championship fight (like Wilder vs Fury) I recall our bet on the Cassius Clay - Sonny Liston fight that you thought was a such a sure thing in favor of Liston that you gave me like 20 to 1 odds. (I forget how much we bet - $1.00?, $10.00? or even which Jr. High we were at - Duggan or Kiley?) Anyway, Allah was evidently on Clay's side as he emerged that night as the great Muhammed Ali - and I vaguely recall settling for a much smaller amount after he shockingly stopped the "Big Ugly Bear" ... Anyway, best wishes (and good luck making any sports bets ...)

Happy (belated) birthday, Carolyn - even though idiot Trump is President and the GOP (Grand Old Pedophiles) are in control of Congress ...

Posted on: May 16, 2017 at 5:33 AM

     I'll always remember David as a kind humorous person who tried to help me limit my losses in those "high stakes" poker games - including some wild all-nighter ones at UMass. May God bless his soul and family members ...

I also knew Jeff since Harris elementary, and I vaguely recall going to his home along with Sandy, Eric Thal (and some of my other Jewish friends) for an impromptu snack party and being very kindly received by Jeff's mother. Despite my Gentile status, I was also invited  to go to the Jewish Community Center with Jeff, Sandy, et al  to play hoops . God works in mysterious ways, but I'm sure that he's in a better place...

Happy Birthday and best wishes to you and your family ...

Hope you're having a happy birthday, young fella - you still root for the Pats or did you become a Bucs/Dolphins/Jaguars fan?

Here's an autobiographical poem I just did:
LIFE-LIFE-LIFE-LIFE-LIFE …

Remember? Rhee-member--member?
Birth trauma - death trauma – most lose memories…
Woeful Arshile hung dead till Ashod born neck askew.
Ronald Ashod- Ashod Ronald : AshRon 108
From Van to Vrindavan, Winds of change blew as all things passed the gate…
Desert corpses, drawing horses, taught courses (who knew?)
Leonardo, Klee, Ernst, Kandinski/ Gauguin, Cezanne, Picasso, Gorky …
Existential dis – orient all nations U (zoo)
Mass the-rape- u- tic abstract art-niks…
To the Woodstock Muse - ic we depart…
Bands smoke peace – pipe and sky sounds
Flowers / psychedelic blues-ers dropped many love bombs…
As I leaned outward against the stage viewing …
On the road to Zen Nirvana - Watts Snyder Hesse , Kurt … Bhaktivedanta
South Beach third shift - South Miami stables, drift a head to…
Coconut Grove tent settlement – freaky sadhus being busy beneath banyons …
El Bizzaro’s Bird House canvas – sent revolutionaries rent (for free)
Yippies/ Zippies, Ginsberg , Sanders , Rubin, Grimes & bhaktas converged
To Flamingo Park – where AH, OM, in-the-sights and dark horses roamed…
Some lives now remembered in tomes …

My lasting impression of Lee as a high school classmate - a kind, gentle, humourous soul.  I'm sure that he's now in a much better place ...

I hope you had a happy birthday (I'm always late ...)

Happy Birthday, old fella ...