1.
the day is a long long one and the flat light of one o'clock
still as the weeds on the windless levy
college kids walk scruffy dogs on scruffier ropes
the willows and cottonwoods and the grey cinder blocks of the prison over the river
dyed red hair and blonde dreadlocks, skateboards
the dehydrator hums in the trailer
I'll take this town the way you'd buy a bicycle,
not the one you hope to ride, the one
you know you will ride
every day
soon the heat will break in the breeze
and I will wander downtown with the tourists
and the homeless
hoping to unfold or to fall to life like autumn leaves
while the woman i came here for is is
teaching children how to
palm strike, shout no!, fight back
like a stray branch I have fallen here
where others come to take root
the dehydrator hums in the kitchen
the air smells like strawberries and
dry grass
ared-haired boy pedals by, pedals by on the levy path.
2.
He wears a red Hawaiian shirt
and flip-flops and is always ready with a
screw gun, a loaner pane of glass,
a good catholic joke.
He is on his way to the movies
riding his big cruiser bike and
whistling.
He is rounding the edges of
each of his fence posts
one by one with a jigsaw.
His eyes have the quality
of a summer day and his
laugh is like a cloudburst
3.
Oh take me out to Body where the doors are always locked!
Take me out to Body where the doors are always locked!
It sure is fun to get there, no matter what the hour!
Just don't stay for long now, cause the ranger he is sour!
Well we skied out to Body, upon a winter's day!
And it was cold as hell friend that's what I'm trying to say!
But the mercury weren't nothing
the ranger's frown was something
It froze our bones right to the core and we had to ski away!
I hear that there are ghosts and ghouls and even a curse or two!
And don't you take a thing from there or they will come for you!
Don't forget your entrance fee
and get there before three
Cause the undead man in green won't spare a minute or two!
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