because you can
write them fast
kind of like songs
mark ribot composed
one while waiting
for a friend
to answer the door
and billy strayhorn
wrote lush life
at age 16
walking a few
city blocks
in shimmering
pittsburgh
baggypantsrich
and i
played an open
mic at a
polish restaurant/bar
in pittsburgh
and a wizened
old man
who looked
like he might be
and open mic
bullshit artist
stepped on stage
and played
rambling man
by hank williams
and then
i believed
in 2 ½ minutes
a drifter
accepts his fate
the american universe
of loneliness is
laid down in verse
like railroad lines
sunset pulled
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