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For Those Who Ride the Dog

by Hardy Parkerson

Ain't doin' no good. Wife's on my back. Wants me to work in the yard, And that's a fact.

I just gotta do it! I can't quit! Just gotta do it! I gotta make it! I gotta do better, it's plan to see; Gotta read Boone Pickens' biography.

Don't know how long my kite's gonna fly; I'm sure I'll make it bye and bye. Sometimes I write poems on a whim. And spend my time recitin' them.

I read "All About Music" from BLUE MOON CAFE: Best thing I've read in many a day. "All About Music" gave me the cries; Made big old tears come to my eyes.

I'd never heard of Grayson Capps, Nor any of those other Orleans chaps; But Capps' story makes me cry. He's quite a writer, and that's no lie!

They say that Capps went to Tulane. When I was there, some called it "Jewlane". "Jewlane" and "Jewcomb" there on Broadway, Where all are welcome: Jew, Gentile, Lesbian, Gay.

At night I walked down Natchez All...See More


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