TURNIN’ POINT

TURNIN’ POINT
“All you need to do
is swallow.” Josh Johnson

waiting for
something to push
an envelope

must have come
to the wrong place

basic chords, I presume
the guitars
are
in tune
       (not a lick, not a riff,
not a whiff of the blues)

paint drying slower to not
show up anything

and free speech put
to the test here, yes sireee,
twangibg lyrics that sink
to the bottom
of the bottle

giving dregs
a new name

and these
the musical
airs and graces need
to send out to, show
the world

the deepest metaphors
of the tribe imaginable

would
     tie up
with a ribbon, present
you myself

but the truck got stuck
truck got stuck