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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
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
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