April 2010
28 posts
smdoc asked: In regards to your Andrew Bird post:
http://www.daytrotter.com/dt/andrew-bird-concert/20030175-110939.html
http://www.daytrotter.com/dt/andrew-bird-concert/20030175-110939.html
Like a biscuit crumb
in a bottle of rum,
for weeks I’d just been stewin’
and I had no clue
of the magnitude
of the idea you were debutin’
and the magnolia trees
could do nothing to ease
the flips my belly was doin’
but you sat all awry
and you turned your blind eye
to the axe you had set to hewin’.
I found a sleeping jackal at the bottom of the bed,
His fur was dark as sable and as soft as pencil lead.
The wind was making furrows in the trees above my head,
So I held the sleeping jackal at the bottom of the bed.
When I fell to sleep I saw him running in my head,
His legs were little lightning bolts, his eyes were indian red.
He bounded up before me like a faithful thorough-bred.
My...
March 2010
16 posts