Texas author and poet Jo VonBargen
Otis Redding:
"oh, I've been loving yoooo ooo ooo"
hey, peeps, chill...
here in the woods it's just us
shhh, listen...
"just a little too long"
man oh man...that voice goes all over me...
oh, c'mon...I'm not all that
I'm just a two-bit bard in a two-bit town
with two bits of wit
"I don't wanna stop now..."
naw...I don't care about fame...I just write
Argue lofty intellectual points with
the prick pundits...who cares?
I damned well get the big picture, though,
with my sieve of a brain...not that
it matters
Fifty years from now what they thought
what I thought
what anybody thought
will just be cow plops in the flower bed
somebody throw a log
on the fire, huh?
look...
I just want us to sit here
on this moldering stump of a
crumbling log and light up a poem
in the smoldering dark,
pass it around
hold...
hold...
hold back the inevitable
one more night
...just handsful of dust
waitin' on day and
the whirlwind
--Jo VonBargen 2011
Asian Travelogue, by the great Aussie poet, Phillip Barker
For a good time, go HERE
Fabulous art and poetry by my longtime, wonderful friend,
Phillip Barker, the unforgettable Gizzard of Oz!! Lively, vibrant, a talent you'll want to follow to the ends of the Earth, for sure! There is no other so engaged with history and the English language....anywhere! Just ignore the fact that he talks funny!
Fabulous art and poetry by my longtime, wonderful friend,
Phillip Barker, the unforgettable Gizzard of Oz!! Lively, vibrant, a talent you'll want to follow to the ends of the Earth, for sure! There is no other so engaged with history and the English language....anywhere! Just ignore the fact that he talks funny!
