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Archive for the day “January 16, 2013”

MARLBORO MAN

MARLBORO  MAN

He lived in this neighbourhood

where I have stopped   for tea

He had steelblue  eyes and was

from Calgary     His command of

language was wanting     but I

overlooked it     ditto his lack of

moral fibre    His father had kept him

under the trailer   where he licked his

wounds at night    And his brother who

was missing a middle finger   baptized me

in the Bow River    so I would know that         I was alive

 

..You live your life in a plastic bag babe         in a plastic bag..

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Winter  2013

 

BUFFALO GIRL

BUFFALO  GIRL     WON’T  YOU  COME  OUT  TONIGHT

Looks like she lives in her   cab

Grown mean ’cause her dream

has turned    Southern Gothic

She is grimy and talkative   and      lonely

 

Enchanted by the   idea   of New Orleans

at 16         Came down after high school

her cab now a shrine      where the smell

of shrimp wafts up      off of  blue vinyl

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Buffalo gals, won’t you come out tonight?
Come out tonight, Come out tonight?
Buffalo gals, won’t you come out tonight,
And dance by the light of the moon.
(1844    John Hodges)

Winter 2013      For  Illinois Atkins    & the City that care forgot

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