Poetry For Everyday People
Looking Back at 2:51 a.m.
Lonnie Johnson
Robert Johnson
Elvis
from the waist up
shake rattle n' roll
Coltrane relentless
the blues winking
at the world
Carson swinging
the perfect club
I was born in Egypt
soul revolution
half sun half moon
purple blue
Ted Koppel
Night Line
air inside
a fresh
just out
of the oven
pita bread
the thought of
feta cheese
olives
fava beans
olive oil
Laverne & Shirley
Happy Days
Andy Griffith Show
Sanford and Son
The Late Night Movie
cable free
black & white
static
foil
antenna
smell of food
in my mothers kitchen
T Bone Walker
Carl Perkins
Scotty Moore
Billie Holiday
Janis Joplin
Enrico Macias
Eva Cassidy
Flintstones
Billy Joe DuPree
Tony Hill
Randy White
Roger Staubach
Preston Pearson
Tony Dorsett
Robert Newhouse
Ed "Too Tall" Jones
Harvey Martin
Tom Landry
Gypsy's flamenco moon
smell of Christmas
wrapped in snow
topped with cinnamon
two nails and fishing twine
blues in Louisiana
ice tea
and fire water
B B King
cotton fields
shacks
Pyramids
Buddy Guy
digging
Muddy Waters
Jimi Hendrix
digging
Buddy Guy
Eric Clapton & Pete Townsend
in therapy
due to Jimi
they've yet to recover
did I mention Buddy Guy
sweet coconut cake
fried chicken
gumbo
Bob Dylan
biscuits
gizzards and livers
falafels
my oldest friend
David Dodge
Jazz
Pele
Gipsy Kings
in 1989
Buddy Guy
changed my life
he played
right into
my heart
gave me
his guitar pick
(alright, I might have
elbowed a guy for it?)
but I was healed
back stage
I found a way
to sneak in
and it was:
just me and Buddy
he talked to me smiling
like an old friend
time stopped
for a long moment
and I tucked it careful
in that place
where few precious things
in life
ever get tucked.
Robert Johnson
Elvis
from the waist up
shake rattle n' roll
Coltrane relentless
the blues winking
at the world
Carson swinging
the perfect club
I was born in Egypt
soul revolution
half sun half moon
purple blue
Ted Koppel
Night Line
air inside
a fresh
just out
of the oven
pita bread
the thought of
feta cheese
olives
fava beans
olive oil
Laverne & Shirley
Happy Days
Andy Griffith Show
Sanford and Son
The Late Night Movie
cable free
black & white
static
foil
antenna
smell of food
in my mothers kitchen
T Bone Walker
Carl Perkins
Scotty Moore
Billie Holiday
Janis Joplin
Enrico Macias
Eva Cassidy
Flintstones
Billy Joe DuPree
Tony Hill
Randy White
Roger Staubach
Preston Pearson
Tony Dorsett
Robert Newhouse
Ed "Too Tall" Jones
Harvey Martin
Tom Landry
Gypsy's flamenco moon
smell of Christmas
wrapped in snow
topped with cinnamon
two nails and fishing twine
blues in Louisiana
ice tea
and fire water
B B King
cotton fields
shacks
Pyramids
Buddy Guy
digging
Muddy Waters
Jimi Hendrix
digging
Buddy Guy
Eric Clapton & Pete Townsend
in therapy
due to Jimi
they've yet to recover
did I mention Buddy Guy
sweet coconut cake
fried chicken
gumbo
Bob Dylan
biscuits
gizzards and livers
falafels
my oldest friend
David Dodge
Jazz
Pele
Gipsy Kings
in 1989
Buddy Guy
changed my life
he played
right into
my heart
gave me
his guitar pick
(alright, I might have
elbowed a guy for it?)
but I was healed
back stage
I found a way
to sneak in
and it was:
just me and Buddy
he talked to me smiling
like an old friend
time stopped
for a long moment
and I tucked it careful
in that place
where few precious things
in life
ever get tucked.
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Looking Back at 2:51 a.m.
Looking Back at 2:51 a.m.
