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Raytheon colleague Ron
a couple of decades further into his pensioned career
out back in the systems room our desks in the same bullpen
desk lunches work-through chatting
he had photo develop and enlargement gear
beginner quality twenty five dollars
enlarger trays tongs film bag and rolls
the small Raytheon team was memorably kind
having just given Wallace The Bear to welcome Ruth
wishing the best when I left for Spartacus and so forth.
And the photo equipment
lovely prints 30 years plus
Mother Dawn Lew and Ruth in black and white.