On an empty stage
He began to play
the honky-tonk piano
with his left hand,
playing slow, and they
began to drift in from the wings
all casual like, though we know
now it was well choreographed,
they all sang high except
for the one called Rondell
who sang so low, cutting in
deep against the three
singing soft and high,
“We saw Jesus down
at the Barbeque place,
where they smoked ribs
while he smoked Camels, no filters
and Joseph hand rolled a Prince Albert,
licking it slow and just so,
and the girl they called Mary
Magdalene offered him a Colt 45.
And he began to preach as he ate
a pulled pork sandwich,
and they all believed
every word.”
The curtain falls
and the piano plays,
softly one handedly.
About anthonyuplandpoetwatkins
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born
in Jackson, The United States
August 04, 1959
gender
male
website
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genre
Poetry, Historical Fiction
influences
James M. Lancaster, Brenda Black White, Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, and Al Filreis
member since
March 2011
About this author
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There is little about me that isn't already available at Facebook or Linkedin, or countless other places.
Poet, writer, construction worker, salesman, truck driver, climber into the attics of total strangers, father and husband, and all around one of the luckiest men on the planet.
My luck continued with a win in the June Goodreads Newsletter Contest! What an honor!
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Additional Influences: Bob Dylan, William Faulkner, Barbara Kingsolver, Gloria Naylor, Eudora Welty