Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Guitars

Guitars, Guitars
strings ring, buzz & sing
arthritic rhythm Guitars
tinny tin strings
on the side of the microphone
electricity swims
tap tapping on the bridge
loose shoed
breathing volume
running up on the fretboard
with jabby hot chords
and the palm of the hand
on the hi-hat’s beating
bleeding into the organ
humming with the melody line
rising always rising
crashing fuzz in reverb
playing the poured concrete
amped up in the corner
alone

2 comments:

  1. organs and tubas
    tout polkas and
    squeezebox wheezing

    at the honky tonk
    with domestic beers
    juke joints with blazers

    rhythm and bluegrass
    and spin yer gal around
    and rock'er back and
    forth a bit
    while that band just goes to town.

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  2. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    in 2004's
    Memories of My Melancholy Whores
    wrote,
    "Rosa Cabarcas sighed:
    The bolero is life.
    I agreed, but until today
    I haven't dared write it."

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