Tonight's Blues

by Willi Brown


Seein' double in the rain

with yer hat in yer hand

not happy

            unhappy

just

     tired

     tonight

            staggerin'

like a wounded man from

            a darkened doorway

                                    yellin'

"c'mon you wimmins n' do

            that jitterbug swing".

 

Not blue

            or unblue

just

            gone

            to N'awlins or somewhere else

wonderin'

            why the road's so dark

            so still

                        down there

                        where it curves

by the tracks

and ghosts

            of lonesome whistles

            and people long gone		

next



tuesday...