making
the whole process
more
complicated than it has to be
no-body
would disagree
it
matters not
how
good you are
what
good you do
or does
it
is the
final measure
more
than cronbach’s alpha
more
than just seeing
if the
same answer
can be
had again
are any
answers
sacred
is any
thing
say
cred
sake
read
for
goodness sake
for pete’s sake
my sake
for me
what
about that
years
speeding up
only to
slow down
in
libraries
and on dirt
roads
in
locker rooms
in your
mother’s home
atop her
piano
more
for holding up
photographs
than
stirring chords
or
sweet songs
sing
along
sing
alone
none of
this
and
none of you
see
the
sunset
was not
meant for you
nor was
it meant for
everyone
else
stone
stuck
staring
at it
without
the words
to make
a stand
only
word enough
to meet
demands
of
consumer culture
that
coffee colored vulture
with a shaker
to the right
a stolen
glockenspiel in the center
its silver bars glimmering in the middle
of it all
the
glimmer
is something you hear
and if
you hear it well
you can see it too
you can
make it through the
hoop
through
the roof
even
and if
that’s not enough
to get
you to stop calling me
steven
then i don’t know what else
i can
do for you
friendo
defend it
make a
case
tell me
why
you
ended up in this place
and why
you feel such a strong want
to heal the hate
to set
it straight
from out of state
the
harm’s long gone
don’t
you know that son
don’t
you forget what we told
you
when we said that
we know
what the color yellow
is
what
the color yellow
was
what
the worth of work depends upon
when we
sat on the back bumpers of fords
always more than one
and
just wanted to play golf
before
we went back to work
before
we came home
from
the moon
or from
utah
where
god only knows what happened
and
what that meant
the
port in the storm
called
itself arthur
but you
always said
‘author’ like it was writing
our
story
from
the gulf coast
ankle deep in crude
strike broke
didn’t
seem right to me
at the
time
doesn’t
seem any more right
now
despite
my red subaru
and
three green semesters
for the contrarian
the septuagenarian
who tricked me
every
day of the week
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