Short Acoustically Poems

through the vein of an old song
the antique gathered speed
sputtering and spitting rust
halos of smoke
engine overheating,
stranded in desperate city
cinderblock people are freaky 
the song lay dead 
outside the vein...
acoustically speaking
I'm tainted-...

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Newport 1965
(Or Dylan Goes Electric)

This was the dream concert
folk was at its peak
Pete Seeger, Joan Baez,
Odetta, Peter, Paul and Mary
Bill Monroe, Johnny Cash,
Gordon Lightfoot, Ian and Sylvia
But the prize, the dream was
to see Dylan play Blowin’ In the Wind
acoustically.
The folkie purists were shocked,
the dream had died.
Dylan played Maggie’s Farm with an
electric guitar and their world came
to an end.
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Bound so tight with your silken love
tends to excite that wild beast within.
The dark of a crow and light of a dove.

This collaboration I’m eager to begin,
you leave me breathless and sweating.
I fall hard for that overtly masculine grin.

Your wet growl leaves me anticipating,
it echoes the tempo that haunts me.
Don’t say this is a game we’re playing.

Our version of forte hanky-panky,
you can’t cover this song acoustically. 
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