It has been more than
a few months since I last posted. Well, yes. Here is an impromptu piece composed
yesterday in reaction to the American election. More things to come when I can.
Some
Country Music (for Wednesday 9 November 2016)
Place of lost welcome,
place of faithlessness, place of the disenfranchised, place of glib hunger,
walled off place, place of broken windows, place of honey, place of gouged certainties,
place of barely invisible menace, place of unrequited promises, place of vinyl
siding, despondent place, place of recycled batteries, place of scorched all-season
radials, place of without, of the less-than-remarkable, place of uneven
hygiene, stolen place, place of dissolving hazards, place of smeared lipstick, place
of tossed-off b-sides, place of jeans with the knees torn out, tongue-in-groove
place, place of small mercies, place of the difficult, that and not this place,
place of compassionate hatreds, place of leaky pipelines, place of the backward
and the unredeemed, another place, place of the more-or-less, place of
coal-fired remorse, place of chained bicycles, place of a few more regrets than
you thought you had, place of stale ketchup-flavoured potato chips, punk place,
place of the awful and brave, place of stark miracles, place of poorly sutured
gunshot wounds, someone else’s place, place of comb-overs, place of flight
risks, uncharted place, place of robust decrepitude, place of sweet fritters,
unlikely place, place of the remainders, place of special sauce, place of
conflicted dreams, place of beatings, place of income splitting, place of
diversified wants, place of barren shelves, of selective plenitude, unthinkable
place, place of cracking asphalt, place of various plastics, unspeakable or unspoken
place, place of adoptive parents, place of hatreds, place of cinched foreign
aid, place of disheveled love, of amateur pornography, long-haired place, place
of manicured lawns, place of unrepaired elevators, place of cream corn, place
of unqualified expertise, place of the quick, this mortal place, place of
almost, place of everyone’s worst nightmare but your own, place of loss and
profit and loss again, place of bleak water, place of deficits, place of
contaminant-free topsoil, place of deadfall, place of stillness, place of thin
government, place of rampant loneliness, deplorable unceded place, place of discarded
cellophane wrappers, place of careless attraction, place of risk, pride of
place, place of cheap stainless steel, place of fallen stars and wheat futures,
agnostic place, no better place, place of refuge, place of excluded hearts, place
of fraught witness, place of those who can laugh and weep at the same time.
