Sunday, October 3, 2021

Duke of Dismal - today's poem

Duke of Dismal


His garage psychedelic hard rock

disco synth  polka punk house

alt country soul techno psychobilly

emo band was passively disgruntled

with a Status Quo that remained

constant through its iterations

 

The name stayed Dukes of Dismal

an accurate appellation of mental state

through 18 singers, 23 bassists,

87 guitarists, 59 keyboardists,

15 drummers and 44 horn players

of various stripes and attainments

 

A band grows a mania for guitars

amps and gear such collection that

strobe over the past and locales

to fill a floor of his ramshackle home

/ rehearsal space through

variably attuned or doubting friends

enemies 15 partners and wives

in better nights and worse

eking out inner museums of collision 

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