I like this new aspect of 'once in a blue moon'
'women who run with the wolves' eh?
a few tweaks in text
Terri )O(
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From: "Ryfkah *" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 5:59 AM
Subject: New: Blue Moon Blues
Blue Moon Blues
The moon bleeds
then ambers
finally milks into night
and we shuffle off to the Michel-
angelo Café to re-
create genesis
have caramel lattes
dip mocha biscottis
He takes out guitar
like a blue Picasso
strums Wailin Willy tune
I light a politically in-
correct cigarette snigger
to the moon
a lunatic
tapping my foot in
beat with the cosmos
I sing along
A passing opera singer tells
me I have a great voice
must be in a regular choral group
I can't sing a note
The sea parted again
...born
in Bethlehem
the moon gone
a star shot across the sky
like a snake darting for prey
I am...
Second full moon
this month I get up to dance
howling to Howlin Wolf
Everyone stares
Cars honking me on
I just {can one ever 'just' boogie?} boogie along the sidewalk
speakeasing to the eyeball night {great line}
My guy says Sit down
You're making a spectacle of yourself [where have I hear this before - so
true to life!]
I simply {simply? again, a little diminishing in this powerful half of the
poem}levitate and raise the dead
other small pleasures
Ryfkah 3/3/02
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