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Mark Sep 2019
Folksy blokes, like ya struttin’ ya thang
If you’ve come out of da Grand Ole Opry
But, won’t stay around for any old music sang
If it’s causing their head, to bob up and down and go all floppy
While rugged mountain men riding in some country rodeo
Can just step right up, to a Appalachia recording studio
Put down several tracks and become a worldwide pop star
They sing about hillbilly ways, while cogging or flatfooting from afar
Talking ‘bout wild hogs, gators, foxes & how so many more
Taste so great, using leftovers as bait & making real men roar
Old fables, told through pictures and patterns, upon knitted quilt
Even showing the feuding days of the Hatfields versus McCoys
From both sides of Tug Fork stream, with many unemployed  
Although Asa and Devil Anse, said, ‘they hadn’t much guilt’
All because of a judge and 5000 acres of unusable swamp land
Once owned, by a close kissin’ cousin named, Perry Cline
Who didn’t even get any blood on his hand
They started a war, that could’ve been stopped
By a bottle or two, of good ole mountain moon-shine
Both clans almost wiped out, if last man standing had accidentally dropped.
Sin wah Apr 8
I'm a cog in the system.
Is there anything other
For lack of a better wisdom

A question asked
Is a question redacted.
Nothing but emojis,
Set up calls,
Emotional well-beings within my own walls

News is lacking.
Algorithmatic.
Time is ticking.
Culture static.

It pays the bills -
Soul ******* still.
Who are you people?
And who am I to you?
This is the team,
Brush this up, and
Make it clean!

Another cog
Another day, another slog
As soon as I'm a rusted bolt
You'll chuck me out
You haven't even heard me shout
I shout best!
But NO.
I am a number
Numbing now
Jail that's paid for
Pick me out
One by one - some wasted space
Worked so hard to be meaningless
Built by stress and fear
Slight push of career
And ai
Brush off the keys
And let out a sigh
You know you'll never hear me cry.

— The End —