A Pocketful of Poesy was and is again a Poem-a-Day(-on-Average) Blog! For 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and now for 2017 and going forward, you may expect to see 365 poems every year, 366 for leap years.

but aren't they all random?

Thursday, October 19, 2023

To James McMurtry, from the crowd that night

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"TUNE IT"

The son of a cowboy novelist 
and one of our finest Western 
apes of angels, come to 
story/song 

stood raw 
like a sort-of 
modern, American 
Elvis Costello 

onstage, messing with 
his strings.

So I stood
in the crowd 
always right
next to her, and screamed 

"YEAH!

TUNE IT!" 

I got such an elbow in 
the ribs, for that! Aimed 
right and hard from my better, 
sharper than-back-then 
half, 

as she laughed, 
but 

It was so well-worth it, because 
I meant every word.

And
she knew I did,

hence the hard-struck 

nerve. 

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