Old Brown Truck

I bought this truckfor a coupple a' hundred bucks from a Down-on-his-Luck gambler while living in my car in the parking lot of Don Laughlins Riverside Resort and Casino back in the early 1980's BEFORE the big boom. There were many other down and out gamblers living (and working there also) so I was never alone, as a matter of fact, after I bought this truck , it became like home to some of us, and years later, I wrote a poem for the

Old Brown Truck

a Friend of Mine

Whos Parts I knew So Well

Oh Brown Truck

If You Could Talk

The Stories

You Could Tell,

Oh Brown Truck, for me and mine,

A Haven for the Homeless

For Pops, and Joey and Billy and Me -

You Kept Us From Aloneness