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A SimPLe counTrY MusiC PoeM
by Matthew PonY Bones
I couldn’t really
Git tu tell them how I couldn’t
Escape tha countrY music.
Thar are other violent
WaYs tu seT you
Somewhere
Don’T yoU forgeT thar’s a tombstOne everY miLe
I couldn’T find tha
Righted words--to conveY
Like a semi-tractor haulin
ChromE Ass in a rain storm through
Tha mountains on I-75
Why Rock and RoLL
Let mE
Down
And was a leT dowN eventuaLitY
I wanted to Relate
Tammy Wynette’s divine spirit possession despondency
--splinters all tha bones
And tha Frentic heart bursts
Outta tha chest
With barn owl wings
I guess someone is eating ribs tonight
I wanted to explain carefully
How tha band Alabama
Smothered my childhood with
Sentimental sexuality--
How billY RaY cyrus
Ate the gravel off tha
Rough ruff road and spoke in
A true honest tongue o blood drippin
Well…at least he maybe tried at thaT
AlmosT
I wanna scalP keith urbaN and massage his exposed brains to a good canister of gasoline cocaine.
How ConwaY twittY
Waszt a twitter of a droLL
How none of most of
Anyone has hearda Barry West,
Northwest, Georgia country singer--
Who sanged bout railroads
With all honesty--Railroads--
Baking railroad ties in tha
Late summer heat
And roses--Yes--vivid
Roses--that will always
Fall apart wither and
Pluck themselves away into
Decay--
Country music is bout singin to and bout
Where ya got struck to---
Or stuffed in metaphYsicaL Taxiderms
That’s whY Elvis Aaron Presley was such a pure flawed maN.
ThaT’s whY Garth BrooKs showed up anYwaY at a 1996 NashviLLe FaN FaiR
AfteR he saiD he was noT gonnA do such a heLL of a corn Pone cornY scratch thang yet instead -----Garth goT Galvanized bythe GhosT of God thaT wenT through hiM and hE signed autographS for astounding 23 houRs straighTTTT.
OnLy sum of this and that I procLaiM I hold a stricted faith in
Lot of the sum may be swollen bellY road kill
And yes nostaglia can be death and I haVe lived in some deaths
And I got a bellY full of shiT and I always step in those dried cow
piEs
Though I musT saY what holds strong and true, either side of the ditch
Country music is bout
Tha
SENSE OF SIN
AnD eaTin tha pale pinK tongue outta a roadkiLLed doG’s stiff moutH.
HeavY rains arE comin and tha thundeR RoLLLLLS
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