Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Blues In The Key Of Kim A
From the book
What Is This Thing Called Love
Published by Norton
© 2004, by Kim Addonizio
All Rights Reserved
BLUES FOR ROBERT JOHNSON
Give me a pint of whiskey with a broken seal
Give me one more hour with a broken feel
I can’t sleep again and a black dog’s on my trail
You’re singing hell hound, crossroad, love in vain
You’re singing, and the black sky is playing rain
You’re stomping your feet, shaking the windowpane
I put my palm to the glass to get the cold
I drink the memories that scald
Drink to the loves that failed and failed
Look down into the river, I can see you there
Looking down into the blue light of a woman’s hair
Saying to her Baby dark gon’ catch me here
You’re buried in Mississippi under a stone
You’re buried and still singing under the ground
And the blues fell mama’s child, tore me all upside down
Kim Addonizio's latest novel:
"My Dreams Out In the Street"
