Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Poetic Obituaries: "Behind that facade of Lacoochee

and his slow-talking, Southern way, he was a walking songbook," [Mary] Epperson said [of James Capes].

He was writing up until he died. His brother found, among the dozens of scrap-paper poems in his apartment, one dated about a month ago. It was titled The One Cent Sale:

from St. Petersburg Times: Lacoochee man's life was filled with songs

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