Oh Billie
I can hear you in the train as it
cries out in the night
Chicago
Memphis
New Orleans
Oh Billie
I can hear you in the
way my memories fall in little
pieces on the stair
Oh Billie can you make that horn player play
Don’t explain
Take all of me
Take all of me
Take all of me
Don’t leave anything behind
Don’t leave anything behind
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Poem by Seymour Shubin Drawing by Michael Franklin 1999, age 6
My brain is tired
the left side
in the front
the part that thinks
it’s in charge.
I drink the bottled water and try to
make the other side say that it is there
that I don’t have to add things up
that the socks in the corner will be
fine for now
that it all didn’t matter anyway
but the socks in the corner
need washing
and they lie there staring at me
like dishes
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The cat went here and there
And the moon spun round like a top,
And the nearest kin of the moon
The creeping cat looked up.
Black Minnaloushe stared at the moon, 5
For wander and wail as he would
The pure cold light in the sky
Troubled his animal blood.
Minnaloushe runs in the grass,
Lifting his delicate feet. 10
Do you dance, Minnaloushe, do you dance?
When two close kindred meet
What better than call a dance?
Maybe the moon may learn,
Tired of that courtly fashion, 15
A new dance turn.
Minnaloushe creeps through the grass
From moonlit place to place,
The sacred moon overhead
Has taken a new phase. 20
Does Minnaloushe know that his pupils
Will pass from change to change,
And that from round to crescent,
From crescent to round they range?
Minnaloushe creeps through the grass 25
Alone, important and wise,
And lifts to the changing moon
His changing eyes.
W.B. Yeats (1865–1939).
He folds his words into pastry shells
and bakes them at 98.6
for as long as it takes to type these words
then he reads these words
and makes changes until
just maybe
for a moment
you can see the line in the water
and the float
bobbing
bobbing
THERE
it disappears
a strike!
It’s gone
and you grab the pole
and yank
and just maybe
for a moment
you remember.
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