Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Rain Dog

___________

“For I am a rain dog too!”
- Tom Waits

for Marc Ribot


You play guitar
Like I walk in this
Sacred ghost:

The connect.
The disconnect.
The reconnect.

You confound and
Perplex,
Fingers dancing
On wood and steel
Like a drunk
Looking for peace,
Looking for shelter
From his storm,

Himself.

The earth died screaming*
And you woke up
With your paintbrush,
Your picks,
Told the world
To Clap Hands,
Then buried the
Conventional corpse
To the Cemetery Polka,

All the while
Adjuring the critic
To close his ears
And open her mind.


*Earth Died Screaming, a song by Tom Waits, who Marc Ribot collaborated with on Rain Dogs and other albums.

Click here to listen to a sample of Marc Ribot's guitar work.

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