Report #59

This week's poem, "Digging Potatoes, 12 Variations," began last fall as I went out to our gardens at dusk to harvest the rest of our crop. My cousins and I each had our own plot, using our own method. For some reason, my plot was almost entirely devoured by grasshoppers -- I think they were paid off. Anyway, attempts at writing the poem kept veering off in divergent directions, so rather than try to force the poem into one theme, I allowed it to grow feral, and then followed each root to see what had developed there.

Music for this week is "Ostrich Walk" from Bix Beiderbecke's Ultimate Collection. Bix got his start in jazz playing gangster clubs and speakeasies in the midwest. He died in Queens hysterically screaming that there were Mexicans hiding under his bed with daggers. Perhaps if he had lived, he would have went on to become the governor of Arizona.

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Report #59