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I knew he and his sister played in the band.
She the Sax and he the Drums.
He also had 13 cats as I understand.
One night there was a party at his house,
I went there with another drummer.
We were introduced and shook hands,
I found out he had sweaty palms as well...
Since that night I dont think I saw him again..
Maybe there was some trouble with the law..
Borrowed to many
bicycles..dropped out of School.
But 15 years after Graduation we remet
in the work place. I was a vault teller,
He managed an armored car company.
He had served in the Navy.
We were both divorced, he was involved,
and I wasnt, not really.
We began to see each other, soon became involved
I came to know how he thought a bit.
"Dont have to be smart to steal" he'd say,
"just wait for someone else to be stupid"
Loved Elvis, he had a fancy suit, like his.
He also remembers his birth.. He was born at home,
Recalls it was cold...perhaps it was also tramatic
in some way..
During my year and half course as a teller,
there were frequent bank and armored car robberies.
But the worst was the one that happened in Arizona.
On a run from El Paso to Nogales.
Two guards were missing as well as the cargo.
One was Gilbert's cousin and the other a man
just hired
..took a while to find the truck...
It was somewhere near the border
..evidence hardly to be found.
I never heard the end of this story, and I believe
it to be an unsolved crime. Prime suspect,
was Gilbert, himself.. If he wasnt guilty of planning
and executing the crime..Then he surely was guilty of neglect
or some lack in security.
He did want to solve some personal problems
he was having, He spoke of suicide often..
In fact his true father, an immigrations officer,
did commit sucide, or so they say .
Gilbert felt he could control any situation,
by saying and doing the right things.
I had a dream of the FBI shooting at him,
while he was in an armored tank..
bullets were flying everywhere..
whizzing over my head as well..
he was at the controls, turning
all the knobs this way and that
He did lose his job, took a job in a
Grocery Store...and one day he told me..
that there was a large sum of money missing
from the register one night...
He was the only one working late...
Didnt know how it happened
(he had a way of confessing like this)
He disappered sometime after this episode..
I havent heard from him again..
I did get a mysterious call from Mexico
many year later..from someone who said
she was his niece..gave me a number to call
in San Diego..it was disconnected..
Gilbert are you spending time in Jail,
Hiding in Mexico..or fallen victim
to suicide, or some other crime....??? |
