STORY BEHIND THE POEM
THE ALUMINUM COYOTE RIDES AGAIN
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Bob Meanley is another old hockey team-mate of mine, as is Curtis Robinson in the previous poem.  Bob has had steel grey hair from the time he joined the police hockey team.  He was given his nickname “The Aluminum Coyote” for several reasons.  There was already a famous hockey player “Phil Maloney” who had the nickname “Silver Fox”, he played in the NHL.  Because of that we didn’t think another one was appropriate.  So we picked aluminum.  Coyote was because he was fast and sneaky on the ice.
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This particular night, January 1, 2000, I was driving through the 900 Powell Street where there were several units doing what we call a “Counter Attack Road Block”, its designed to catch drunk drivers.  I noticed Bob sitting behind the wheel of a civilian vehicle and I asked one of the other guys what was up.  He told me, that Bob was locked in the car and couldn’t get out.  Nothing he tried would work.  All the doors were jammed, windows too.  It was an old beater of a rust bucket, and who knows, it just might have been a Roadrunner.  To tell the truth, I didn’t look too close, because it fits better this way.
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Anyway, after much struggling, Bob finally got the window to roll down and he proceeded to struggle his way out.  He only required a bit of assistance.  I thought it was kind of appropriate, that once again, the Roadrunner beats the Coyote and so the poem was born.
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Its amazing how this works.  Sometimes I will go for 2 or 3 months with nothing to write about, and then bang, I get 2 or 3 in a row.
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