Get Away 1928
for Marvin Sewell

Pack up and hit it
Road warrior got the
Big one

Like the Dipper
Urban area -- a trip
Far gone

Click on the dusty boots
separated troops
Movin' on
Movin' on

Take him off the farm
Seen the Parée
Uh Huh

Hard to 'yes, boss'
After francophillic
got some

Brothers swung low
Belles chimed
Sweet french quiches

"Boy" in the US
All man to
parisians

Scared the Crow
Plot-condemned--no way
couldn't keep him

Flee to the
steel belt (work-related
health reasons).

Rusty got the clay
still baked to his
pained face

Collard green and hoe cake
withdrawal from his
momma's place

Foul hawk breezing through
with the Negro
northern news

you ain't never far away
enough to not need
the blues.


From INTERMISSION (Soft Skull Press, 1998)