repetition of a song

By DB Cox

take me

to a place

where midnight

accumulates

don’t want

to see the sun

anymore – put me

on a train

with no windows

where nighttime

lasts forever

& a speed-mad

engineer with

a mechanical heart

high balls

a coal-black engine

through

time tunnels

like a bullet

leaving a gun

where the speed

of darkness

is faster than

the speed of light

dreaming up

a nocturnal scene

mingus & monk

softly

behind a tan-skinned

lady, white orchid

in her hair

singing “keeps on a rainin”

just give me things

i can depend on

red wine, old times

the repetition of a song

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posted 11/12/04

DB Cox is Blues musician/poet, originally from South Carolina, now resides in Watertown, Massachusetts. He has had writing published on-line in: Verse Libre Quarterly, LauraHird.COM, Zygote In My Coffee, Remark, Underground Voices, Sacramento Poetry Art & Music, and others. His work has appeared in print in: Aesthetica, Circle Magazine, Shadow Poetry, My Favorite Bullet, Mystery Island Magazine and Open Wide Magazine.

He has played guitar since the age of 14. After graduating from high school in 1966, he did a 4 year stint with the U.S. Marines. After his discharge, he moved to Boston, Massachusetts to attend the Berklee School of Music, where he eventually found the blues circuit. He loves writing for the same reason he loves playing the guitar -- a way to communicate how he feels, at a given time, on a given day. donniebegood@comcast.net