there’s no business
like show business
when the schedule is short
when the hours are long
when you try to say something is wrong
when they reply if you don’t like it, leave
when you feel pressured to see it through
and hope the next show won’t be like this one
lost shoes
lost suitcase
missing wallet
naked in public
taking a speedboat to a marina at night
staying for months in a hotel room
flying to London alone
worrying about being evicted
worrying that something’s missing
worrying that someone’s missing
Assembling a portion of an earlier poem with a recently written one about Texas’s horrible anti-abortion legislation. Aware that the state I grew up in has a very imperfect history, but I never expected this kind of demagoguery.
busybodies now busy policing women’s bodies
when they’re not celebrating shooting without a license
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pendulum swing could be foretold in 1982
when middle of the road Governor Mark White
had the absolute nerve to enact No Pass, No Play
intended to make high school athletes get passing grades
before they could play the Holy Game of Football on Fridays
there was a rebellion and a stunted notion of freedom even then
and Mark White was defeated for re-election
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the sidewinder snake with an appetite for Lone Star Beer
and a SECEDE bumper sticker on the back of his pickup
became hungry to enforce simple values on everyone
and, later, simpleton governors like GWB and Rick Perry
plus Greg Abbott acting the role of fiddle-playing Covid patient
had no trouble offering laws and protections for the snake to excrete
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kids get sick, teachers die, a school closes
but that doesn’t matter to the angry freedom bludgeoning people
making it harder to vote, impossible to think for yourself
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this is what you get when you wrap bloody meat selfishness
inside the tamale husk of performative righteousness
allegedly in Jesus’ name
accomplishments before frailty and finality
music lives forever on different formats
plus video clips both professional and cell phone jitter
stories told before are exhumed on social media
Warren Zevon discusses Don and Phil’s calm on storm tossed plane
Keith Richards on how Charlie punched out Mick for condescension
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younger people may have momentary interest
older folks see time passing too rapidly
so they turn on radio and TV for official confirmation
and communal mourning from musical peers
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all over the world, silent prayers beginning with
please don’t let anyone else die this week
shred shred shred shred shred
Shred Shred Shred Shred Shred Shred Shred
shred shred shred papers
Ron De Santis letting the virus burn through his state and being blind blind blind to science to schoolchildren and to how Donald Trump—the man De Santis has seen the intestines of more than once—staked his re-election on shoving COVID aside and lost decisively to Joe Biden—Ron learns nothing, thinks he’ll jump over the canyon Trump couldn’t
Merchant of pestilence speeding towards a truck stop in Sarasota
Will anyone be there to greet Muster Death?
The summit meeting between Paul McCartney and famed record producer/podcast host Rick Rubin is discussed, with some side detours into upcoming Beatle legacy projects like Peter Jackson’s GET BACK miniseries for Disney+ and Paul’s two-volume collection of song lyrics.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2qHMfHTdsGYcwRoU3Tzzfg?si=h3djX0PdRJuNGhttuw1Krg&dl_branch=1
