These Old Blues

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This Old Blues

Pour this whiskey on my finger
A thimbleful or the whole bottle
Won’t matter when it all disappears
Invisible hand, rusty throttle
I’ll save the tears for thundering anger
At you, myself or I

After all
I’m a hermit crab,
an oyster with no pearl
She promised me the galaxy
but couldn’t give me her world

My low bar
Hit me on the head
Hitching a limo for one
to Pig Alley or a cornfield strip club

Does anyone hear my news?
Does anyone listen when its old blues?

Some say this wound, it’s self-inflicted
Paid for with feelings and their corruption
If that’s true, I still have rights to this production
Still, Everyone has got their special prediction
When you’re cut up and alone you’ll die
and in passing you’ll be mentioned

Someone I’m after
A poet seeing the world in free verse
But her smile is so serious
I’d like to be there for her
That is, if I had the nerve
The Connecticut girl is smiling from her wooden perch
Silently succeeding

There’s no skeleton key inside love
or anyone that lives and breathes
You connect with someone they’ll sweep you away
Quick like the rake or slow like the autumn breeze

Does anyone hear my news?
Does anyone listen when its old blues?

Can anyone hum a tune
When I’m singing this old blues?

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from C.W. Franz, released June 21, 2019

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C.W. Franz Chicago, Illinois

Enterprising poet with a strange taste in music. Butchering everything from folk to musique concrete or something.

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