Take this Meme and Shove It - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

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Take this Meme and Shove It

 

A Dirge in Three Chords

 

That which makes a lucrative country song

Ain’t nothing but blood on the porch-steps of life:

Handcuffs, weeping children, weeping exes

Beer-puke on the floor of a ’64 Ford

 

A daughter who found love two trailers over

Because her daddy found love in another town

And her momma’s too damn’ stoned to notice

After losing her job at the Dixie Belle

 

Trey-Boy calls from somewhere in the Dakotas

Needing money for a bus ticket home

 

And there ain’t no money

And there ain’t no home