MY LADY

The listless feather, cast a wounded refuge from the wings of a passing seagull, rode silently upon its windy stallion. The emerald waves crashed upon the shore and tiny sea crystals turned rainbow hues in the sunlight. It was now two o'clock, mid-day and she still wasn't here. I thought, "Surely she will come, she often comes on days as beautiful as this". Just a year ago last week she had visited my mother and comforted her from the pain she had so long endured. I can still remember the look on my mother's face after she had left so peacefully. Oh, she must indeed be a grand lady. They will never get me to believe the stupid stories they tell about her. The nerve of some of these people, trying to smear mud on a name as great as hers and after she has relieved so many of them from their living hell. I've been sitting here so long I'm getting a bit tired. The cool summer breeze has all but stopped now. The sun is half swallowed by the sea. I will soon be enshrouded by the blackness of night, and the loneliness of my lady death.

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MY LADY is a metaphorical paragraph that, along with a poem presumably entitled SEASCAPE, was his first published writing. It was printed in the April 1969 edition of Seascape, the school literary magazine of Ocean County College. Note that the paragraph was erroneously attributed in print to "Bruce Sprengsteen".

The Publication

Seascape is the literary magazine of Ocean County College in Toms River, NJ, where Springsteen spent three semesters only in 1968. He enrolled in September and dropped out in December shortly after his parents moved to California. The January 1969 edition of the magazine contained Springsteen's first two published writings, a poem presumably entitled "Seascape" and a metaphorical paragraph entitled "My Lady". See SEASCAPE and MY LADY for more details.

Brucebase told SpringsteenLyrics.com, "We describe the publication from which the poems emanate as the school's Literary Yearbook, not the Student Yearbook. It is our understanding, from correspondence from an Ocean County College librarian, that the school published an annual Literary Yearbook and an annual Student Yearbook and that both are hard cover and hard spine - i.e. books."

Only a few issues of this publishing are known to exist. Most fans have seen Springsteen's writings in Seascape only under glass at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame And Museum in Cleveland. In June 2004, a copy was auctioned on Lelands.com, and a couple of years later an issue was donated to The Bruce Springsteen Special Collection at the Asbury Park Public Library, becoming the 3114th accepted item into the collection which is devoted to preserving the writing history and cultural legacy of Bruce Springsteen and members of the E Street Band.

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