Baskets & Things

He bought baskets

For his things

Woven down by the River Blue

W/ rustic guitar strings

1, 2, 3, - 3, 3, 4

He recognizes

Your face,

Vaguely familiar

A haunted frame –

Broken strings

&

New roads.

Paper towns

Newspaper kings

And plastic cities

-         Dimatap –

-         Interstate maps –

His performance

Receives many cat calls

And hand claps.

More baskets,

More rings of silver

Like Keith Richards.

And more things

To move around –

And, stay at home –

All together now

Winter – Spring 2003

John Alan Conte` JR