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Singing Sour Grapes

from Songs for Leaving by A.S. Coomer

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When hope feels like the kink in the hose
‘cos what isn’t a garden after all?
& the dilapidated walls of your heart
Black and gettin’ blacker
Give up the ghost & all things corporeal
Sagging, all of it sagging
Flow below the valley low
The muddy water, grit in the teeth, stingers in the eyes
Will be the least of the molehills-turned-mountains
The range arranged in a range in a rage
You’re able to appreciate as your problems

Grapes unfit for anyone’s table wine
& whine you must but rust crusts the busted backseat springs
& there ain’t no room left upfront

Behind the black patch
Cracked blinds & misplaced time
Great heaping sweeps as deep as the dreams of The Last Sleep
You’re given the fence and a running start
but find the sheep stygian & immune to “how high?”
Pinky promises of “gettin’ by, by & large” in the cloven-footed future
A goat’s head soup of potential failures
Hoping against hope the sweet by-&-by’s more than this pigsty
Just another place in time to whither, rot, & die slowly
& just long enough for a Lott’s-Wife of a Last Look
at the breadcrumb trail of tiny failures
each glistening under the midnight sun
glinting like broken geodes
or splintered glass
An eternal exhale of indecision

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from Songs for Leaving, released November 25, 2022
This poem was published by Can We Have Our Ball Back? in April of 2020.

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A.S. Coomer Elizabethtown, Kentucky

Folk. Americana. Narratives. Ambient Instrumentals. Aubades. Nocturnes. Poetry. Rock & roll. Psychedelia. Alt- Country.

Five of my tunes were published by The Museum of Americana.

Rural Eminence Volumes One, Two, & Three are instrumental reflections of the rural life.

Songs for Leaving is a poetry/music fusion.

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