Seam Crooked Sam

The mule kicked off a new one
 and the stockings ran up Seam Crooked Sam
 bandana frock stuffed with smoke
 and ears out flopped like bowlin' pins
 hog troughs hocked and wallered in cool mud bins
 and patent leather hooves
 split in twos
 rooms for rent down t' Ben's
 Frendsa danced in a frenzy
 choked a juke bird with froth glass ferns
 and turpentine urns her sawdust daily keep
 and whiskey creeps down her neck naked front
 and red leatherette
 peen button set where her fanny sweat
 raised her wrist-a-fan and a mouse coughed cotton
 through a screen door cracked sand
 rooms rent only to friends
 Hat Rack Hotel
 architecture tincture of red Arkies
 pinched the southern belle
 and splayed his cracked nail hand
 grey fedora--snappy band
 and the camel walls yelluh like damp dead chickens
 beak down the hard wood floor
 and the music--O the music
 harp man blew his best lung white shirt
 his feet worked like a monkey out the door
 and Dora robbed a baby through a dark bebop
 licorice lenses fogged in hot sorrow
 through the floorboards at the general store
 yuh foods still in the hot hand oven
 apple pie cooked through a seed bruised stem eye
 sticky in the window of Momma Frame Broke
 rope bell dinglin'