Just to put this writing in context:
The Eddie songs are about a special horse, the horse my sister and I have shared since we were kids. John met Eddie the first summer he met me. John knew I loved Eddie more than any boy I had ever met...although that did change as I grew to love John. We were involved in 100-mile ride competitions. John often joined me, riding alongside or crewing from the ground. In the fall of 1988 he drove the Turkey Hollow Farm truck and trailer to take me and Eddie to the North Carolina 100-mile ride. He wrote these songs after that experience.
The rest of the songs he wrote over that first summer we spent together at Smoke Rise Farm in Woodstock, VT. Most of them were directed to me. The one with the bicycle rider icon above text he wrote about himself.
I found something else he wrote many years later when we were living in Vail in the mid-1990s. In response to a comment I made about him not writing poems anymore, he scribbled on a sticky note: "Maybe I don't write poetry now because I'm not scared anymore. I love you."
He often started letters to me with a rock'n'roll lyric. A letter he wrote to me in the fall of 1988 after I had left Vermont, when I was heading back to Israel, he quoted Bruce Springsteen, "...sometimes it's like someone took a knife baby edgy and dull and cut a six-inch valley through the middle of my soul..."
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{Click to enlarge the image}Resources:
Eddie songs PDF
Songs to Lisa PDF
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