URANIUM BLUES
Driveshaft
distributing eighty, ninety, a hundred
CLANG clank clank clank
outside Moab Utah
falling dusk
long white snake line
blacktop
shimmering off
shimmer dimming out
mountains far
low ahead
smoke a cigarette wait smoke
wait sky bleeding up
down behind mountains wait
sun’s hiss sidewinder’s sandshuffle rattle
first long low leap of hare
car walls away last hot sticks of sun
cigarette’s smoke-signal saves you
palm it & let it go toot
toot
a hum something
down the road crosseyed lights
stand up wave cowboy
like the cavalry out & under
driveshaft down pickup’s got a tow
haul you in patch you up come daylight
get drunk tonight
heigho Silver
gaining on shadowed etched
mountains hauling ass through pyramids
huge wide-based sinister cones hundreds
through falling night under stars
uranium
inside mega-tons of pyramids
house up high there’s Mister Big Bucks
made him a hill built him a house
them from Washington big wigs
& queen bees
down here’s enlisted workers’
mobiles hauled in you ever
seen such a one? long as a railway car
star-glitter’s ore hot stuff’s in there
just awaitin’ ta burn down hell hot damn
we going to blow up the whole
freaking world
break out the booze
we got us a writer here going to Gollywood
play you a tune strum strum strum
sing along sing a song of uranium
uranium blues glitter glitter
stars all over up & down
same whole hotdamn universe
blowin’ itself up bee–you-tiffle
all night outside on the nailedtogether
radio active porch strumming, swigging beer
on a tilting planet singing the Big One
BIG ONE everything doing a slow
burn slow burn
Heraclitean
rise up up Mister Sun
sleeping until dark again lit up
drive off singing the atomic world
in the dark starbright early morning night
headlights glaring
singing Uranium Blues
Driveshaft
distributing eighty, ninety, a hundred
CLANG clank clank clank
outside Moab Utah
falling dusk
long white snake line
blacktop
shimmering off
shimmer dimming out
mountains far
low ahead
smoke a cigarette wait smoke
wait sky bleeding up
down behind mountains wait
sun’s hiss sidewinder’s sandshuffle rattle
first long low leap of hare
car walls away last hot sticks of sun
cigarette’s smoke-signal saves you
palm it & let it go toot
toot
a hum something
down the road crosseyed lights
stand up wave cowboy
like the cavalry out & under
driveshaft down pickup’s got a tow
haul you in patch you up come daylight
get drunk tonight
heigho Silver
gaining on shadowed etched
mountains hauling ass through pyramids
huge wide-based sinister cones hundreds
through falling night under stars
uranium
inside mega-tons of pyramids
house up high there’s Mister Big Bucks
made him a hill built him a house
them from Washington big wigs
& queen bees
down here’s enlisted workers’
mobiles hauled in you ever
seen such a one? long as a railway car
star-glitter’s ore hot stuff’s in there
just awaitin’ ta burn down hell hot damn
we going to blow up the whole
freaking world
break out the booze
we got us a writer here going to Gollywood
play you a tune strum strum strum
sing along sing a song of uranium
uranium blues glitter glitter
stars all over up & down
same whole hotdamn universe
blowin’ itself up bee–you-tiffle
all night outside on the nailedtogether
radio active porch strumming, swigging beer
on a tilting planet singing the Big One
BIG ONE everything doing a slow
burn slow burn
Heraclitean
rise up up Mister Sun
sleeping until dark again lit up
drive off singing the atomic world
in the dark starbright early morning night
headlights glaring
singing Uranium Blues
My work has appeared in The
Sewanee Review, Southwest
Review, The Yale Review, The
Chicago Review, Carolina
Quarterly, The Virginia
Quarterly Review, The Texas
Review, The American Scholar,
Stand and Agenda (England),
The Notre Dame Review, 5 AM,
Rattle, and the New York
Quarterly, among others.
I am the author of several
collections of poetry. Time
and Fevers won the latest
“Writer’s Digest” Award for
Self-Published Books in Poetry
and is also a 2007 recipient
of an Eric Hoffer Award for
Excellence in Independent
Publishing. An earlier
collection, Murderer's Day,
was awarded the Verna Emery
Poetry Prize and published by
Purdue University Press.
My latest novel, FORTUNE
ISLAND, is forthcoming this
summer from Cherokee McGhee.
Sewanee Review, Southwest
Review, The Yale Review, The
Chicago Review, Carolina
Quarterly, The Virginia
Quarterly Review, The Texas
Review, The American Scholar,
Stand and Agenda (England),
The Notre Dame Review, 5 AM,
Rattle, and the New York
Quarterly, among others.
I am the author of several
collections of poetry. Time
and Fevers won the latest
“Writer’s Digest” Award for
Self-Published Books in Poetry
and is also a 2007 recipient
of an Eric Hoffer Award for
Excellence in Independent
Publishing. An earlier
collection, Murderer's Day,
was awarded the Verna Emery
Poetry Prize and published by
Purdue University Press.
My latest novel, FORTUNE
ISLAND, is forthcoming this
summer from Cherokee McGhee.
E.M.SCHORB
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