BYTCH AT THE MOON

bytch — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:31:04 +0000

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bytch — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:36:06 +0000

The Found: Mary Sue

bytch — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:35:27 +0000

Mary
(sometimes just Sue)
is
fulfillment
underlying all
how exceptional and wonderful
quickly either male
or female

Mary
original
fantasies
may seem to push
her

undisguised
Mary comes
is judged

improbably
the puzzle
Mary
is
a flaw
is an annoyance,
is also apparently not a flaw

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bytch — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:31:30 +0000

I Think Andy Rooney Has Cloned And Set Down Root

bytch — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:04:40 +0000

I Think Andy Rooney Has Cloned And Set Down Root In My Psyche, Dreaming Of Poetry

to think deep thoughts
make cosmic projections
–wouldn’t that be nice

to expound on the ground and the weight of the state of it
universalize the wonder of it all
–did you ever notice

to unmeasure time
create worlds from the space between words
–here’s a poem I wrote once

FEATHER

bytch — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 07:53:45 +0000

Feathers

all her life, they had been saving down
to make her wedding feather bed

to celebrate the birth,
grandmother killed a goose
and brought the carcase, warm,
to where her daughter lay

a mother makes the first gift

weakly wrenched out of the body
the first feather was bound
inside a square of silk, red,
with wormwood, thyme, and rue

the bundle, smaller than a baby’s fist,
soaked by the fire, in bees’ wax
until the baby had a name

from that day, for a hundred days
they melted crimson wax, dipped
the feather once, and let it harden

honey-scented, it still waited
feather herbs and silk
under bushel bags of down

Mary, Sue, Mary

bytch — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:32:15 +0000

Mary
(sometimes just Sue)
is
fulfillment
underlying all
how exceptional and wonderful
quickly either male
or female

Mary
original
fantasies
may seem to push
her

undisguised
Mary comes
is judged

improbably
the puzzle
Mary
is
a flaw
is an annoyance,
is also apparently not a flaw

Soldier’s Joy

bytch — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:19:29 +0000

This is Fred Colby’s introduction of Albert Gore’s band at a square dance in 1938:

“Some thirty or forty years ago, two brothers ran for governor of Tennessee. The one on the Republican ticket, and one on the Democrat. And they went around over the state fiddling. The Democrat was the best fiddler, and he was elected. But the Republican was a very shrewd man, as they have to be in Tennessee. So, he waited until the Democrats nominated a man who couldn’t fiddle, and then he ran again and was elected, about twenty years later.

“Well, our–the music for our square dance tonight is furnished by Albert Gore’s band. Albert and six other men, they ran for Congress in the fourth Congressional district. And Albert, he was a little young, but he was the best fiddler, and we thought he’d be the safest man. His band is going to give us the music for the square dance tonight.”

Listen to Albert Gore’s band perform “Soldier’s Joy” at the1938 National Folk Festival, Constitution Hall, Washington, D.C. May 1938