full blue moon
Posted: November 21st, 2020, 11:17 am
trucks rollin' all morning
still working on the damn bridge
Susan heads out to the outdoor market
I'm tired and distracted
good old Waverly, every Saturday she comes alive
been mixin' it up for decades
a smorgasbord of characters from old novels
like flavors at Baskin Robbins
Waverly Market tasty and raw
always has been, pick a decade
you can always haggle, I can haggle too
but not today, today I'm lookin' at old photos
reliving the past with old friends
smiling in black and white
what will people think of me
when I'm ashes in an old Maxwell House can
what will they miss,,.... maybe nuthin'
don't matter...I'm just an old man rambling
like Jack Elliot, flatpicking and
bending strings to his will,
singin' raspy songs in his head
dancin' across his self-imposed cranial cell
like Mr. Bojangles. a tap-dancing jigsaw puzzle
with pieces missing and forgotten....
do me a favor
scatter my dust on the Gunpowder River
when the moon is full of itself and blue
say something nice about me, and go on home
still working on the damn bridge
Susan heads out to the outdoor market
I'm tired and distracted
good old Waverly, every Saturday she comes alive
been mixin' it up for decades
a smorgasbord of characters from old novels
like flavors at Baskin Robbins
Waverly Market tasty and raw
always has been, pick a decade
you can always haggle, I can haggle too
but not today, today I'm lookin' at old photos
reliving the past with old friends
smiling in black and white
what will people think of me
when I'm ashes in an old Maxwell House can
what will they miss,,.... maybe nuthin'
don't matter...I'm just an old man rambling
like Jack Elliot, flatpicking and
bending strings to his will,
singin' raspy songs in his head
dancin' across his self-imposed cranial cell
like Mr. Bojangles. a tap-dancing jigsaw puzzle
with pieces missing and forgotten....
do me a favor
scatter my dust on the Gunpowder River
when the moon is full of itself and blue
say something nice about me, and go on home
