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As of tonight, he’s sprung.
We meet him roused from his lone photograph,
peering out on a world long since dead to Dockery’s
hardwood stomps and Specials, too---
blemishes
like bruised peaches under each eye,
lips asserting the stout, mid-taunt gaze of the Delta dandy.

No doubting he is that hardboiled and wiry sonofabitch,
said to be part Injun and winnowed by the seamier affections
of men, and why not.
Not one voice like that voice rising,
now whumping low in the register,
demystified,
the storied routs of Tom Rushen and Halloway
mixing stakes with our nubile daughters’ trembling
knees.

We need well this poet and harpy: one like to blow
the roof off God’s house just to tickle a whim of whiskey
and coke;
the other firm and quick in the squabbles of fools,
railing against the scheming likes of all the world’s
Mr. Day’s.
We need him like the god needs the demon,
so the augurs of all that good and bad Charley
remain an imbalance eternally tipping one
truth to the next, one song to the other,
heel to ghostly heel.
Swing low, wind, and back him.

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from Blown Realms and Stalled Explosions, released October 5, 2011

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Enablers

Band Members: Joe Goldring (former Swans, Toiling Midgets, Touched by a Janitor) on guitar; Kevin Robert Thomson (former Nice Strong Arm, Timco, Touched by a Janitor, now Hazel Atlas) also on guitar; poet, writer, and narrator Pete Simonelli on vocals. Rounding out the line-up is drummer Sam Ospovat (Ava Mendoza, Brendan Seabrook, tUnE-yArDs, William Winant). ... more

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