Sketches - 23 (September 6th, 2014)

23.

My wife Ashley figures out her

plant business from the

dim down late day

           kitchen.

Musicians will come over

and play tonight - The Baberaham

                                    Lincolns

and I take whatever I've learned

from past dark shuffles in

the corners and stages of

full and empty bars and

night clubs I've played in

      (in these times a full or empty

           room makes no difference -

               maybe it never did)

until I have to raise up the whole

blessed thing from scratch and

start the process over

        again and again and again

to make it fall the right way.

More work follows to the point

where I can only judge myself by

how well I survive the

          angry swelling currents

          of this unknown belligerent

          sea.

Such is being an American artist

in 2014.

(September 6th, 2014)

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