| © Michelle Rochford-Boleyn From the unpublished, posthumous manuscript: ONCE 1973 Piney Poobah
POEM 1 ONCE Once I knew a man named Bobby Once I had a friend called Chuck Once I had a truk named the lazy s.o.b Once I had a time called luck Once I was a handsome feller Once I had a mouth full a teeth Once I had more hair on the top of my head Once I could a whistled in the breeze Once I knew how to keep my pants up Once I had a girl called Pete Once I had a dollar I could call my own Once I had a room with heat
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In
1973, a poor road poet from Altus, Oklahoma, by the name
of Piney Poobah, froze to death in his 1939 Ford pickup,
which was parked out back of the Wagon Wheel 'honky tonk'
Saloon; a sorry establishment located in the stockyards
of Fort Worth, Texas. These are some of the "rode poms" he left behind. Piney liked to
write "poms" while he walked, and keep their
rythm in his head as he traveled the lonely back roads
that stretch throughout Texas and Oklahoma. Originally
written with a #2 yellow lead pencil on the the back of a
brown paper bag, they are published in their original
spelling and format. POEM 2: WHO POEM 3: IF POEM 4: WHEN POEM 5: WHY POEM 6: HOW back to www.beatitudepoetry.com |
