Old Song

 

Leadbelly on the hifi–

Good morning blues

Clean nowhere in mind–death after death

And all before breakfast. Didn’t I love enough Lord

To have an ounce of hope? The old singer had

Grasshoppers in his pillow, crickets in

His milk. One drinks his hope that way

Eh Meester Jesus? Just push the bugs around

With your tongue.

 

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Author: stevekuusisto

Poet, Essayist, Blogger, Journalist, Memoirist, Disability Rights Advocate, Public Speaker, Professor, Syracuse University

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