The point of Entry

By Jack Joseph Smith

I am fourteen buttereupping a diamond head horse, definately all the way from oregon and he pulls up and I look and he says what's a matter and I say why don't you have sides on it and he says it's a flat bed and I say I don't see any manufacturing around here and he says I guess I overlooked that and I said to myself I am in love with him already Gradpa told me how he was out in Arizona as a child, or was it greatgrandpa told him and then he told me about seeing Roy Rogers before he was a movie star riding around the arena

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Under The point of Entry, the speaker recalls being fourteen with a horse, discussing a flat bed and thinking they were in love with the man. The speaker then recalls a story about Arizona and seeing Roy Rogers before his film career, questioning whether a grandfather or greatgrandfather supplied it.

The speaker sets the encounter beside a family story and leaves its chain of telling uncertain. The raised buttereupping replaces kissing in the source; neither the recollection nor the Roy Rogers claim establishes the writer's biography.

Claude

Under the title 'The point of Entry', the speaker says 'I am fourteen buttereupping a diamond head / horse', meets a man who says 'it's a flat bed', says 'I am in / love with him already', and then recalls 'Gradpa' and a story about 'seeing Roy Rogers / before he was a movie star'.

A teenage crush and a family story share the poem, and the speaker is unsure whether the story came from the grandfather or the great-grandfather. 'buttereupping', 'definately', 'oregon' and 'Gradpa' are typed forms.