Image from a larger work on paper by Francis Zander, Jenny Moon Tucker
and M Pony Payroll Bones. Late May/Early June 2014
Below are notes, poetics, aphorisms, bits of folklore, observations, fragments, lyrical lines etc taken from handwritten jottings in a notebook on Saturday July 19th, 2014. The formless formed. Something may or may not occur with these notes. Something already has these are notes. Yes, the formless formed. Raw, nonlinear, associative, honest ramblings-----
JUly 19th Notes,
2014................
--the problem of mechanisms
-----thee problems of
Mechanisms---
One forgets what the original
definition of machine is.
Outdated cultural metaphors
chutz it up. The stand up comedy in
purgatory is NOT FUNNY.
barking dogs, motorcycles
Revving---Recognition of barely freedom those dirt bike rider kids?
There's a pig in the alley
trying to sell me bacon.
squallin Cat.
Autumn breeze made
a summer tooth loosE
The old clubhouse down the
dirt road winding hills...where the local folks would have dances.
The pistol shot
a hole in the banjer
and tha player was not struck
yet took time to feel
conviction of this.
One truly understands music
if one is put in danger by music in any context.
Hen waller
Breakin tha Cow's
necK
Pissin inside
tha covered bridge
upon midnight
whipstitch
bloody them shoes
Lame donkey dances in the
rain
The stranger had
lost his way and
everyone wasz a
stranger and they did not
know
so (they did not KNow they were also
strangers.) The stranger
KneW he wasz a strangeR.
TheY forced me
to be right handed,
I suspect
--I'm still from the
devil. I am left
handed.
don't trust a woman
who hides behind a
man
don't trust a man
who hides behind
a woman
singing usta be as natural as
talking
breathing---100 yeaRs
ago--
(and where did this happen you might ask?)
some evil tooK over this
countrY--don't
want people ta sing
-- --singing keeps things
honest
fiddle and banjo
come from the devil
THe name of thA
composer was long
f o R G o T T E N
An old insult "HE stood
behind the door too long."
Horse apple
Quaker bottom Road
Hamlin's Wizard Oil
William S. Hays wrote
"Little Log Cabin in the Lane."
THis was the first country hit played and sung by
Fiddlin John Carson ---1923--Old ATL Moonshiner, Patriarch,
Roustabout and timeless man of his day.
He knew obligations. Good
bad. THe burning crimson evening
descendeth over tha PiedmonT.
"Things have changed
their
course another way."
an old insult "He didn't
know enough to throw rocks at
chickens"
"Nostalgia ain't what
it used to be."
Grandmother's dream
He got drunk
and tried to stab tha
river to death.
The river drowned him.
"I had a little
chicken/she had a wooden leg."
"If you need a helping
hand you'll find it at
the end of your arm."
Below are five
examples of Pioneer/Appalachian Slang
Jimber Jawed
Cooter around
flustrated
hillside fish
obsquatulate--(to mosey or to
abscond))
(end)
squirrel draggeR
--rabbit bomPer
saLacious winds of
ghost tongues--
Conviction or Caprice?
Interrogations proliferated
yet no resolution
---that itself is
the resolution- - -
Babble goes the babbling
animal(s)
A soul in de
U N D E R WO R L D
SKELETONIZED with de BONES REARRANGED with CrueLTY
A whistling Crow
and a belching Hen
Death cups accompany
and offers offers
from a burlap sack
O SiN.
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and M Pony Payroll Bones. Late May/Early June 2014
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