I think I'll go play my mandolin at the Green Door tonight. I'll have a Bass and a single malt and I'll sing "Angel from Montgomery": When I was a young girl, ooh I had me a cowboy … or if I knew the tune, Thom Gunn's "Seesaw," from The Man With Night Sweats:
Days are bright,
Nights are dark.
We play seesaw
In the park.
Look at me
And my friend
Freckleface
The other end.
Shiny board
Between my legs.
Feet crunch down
On the twigs.
I crouch close
To the ground
Till it's time:
Up I bound.
Legs go loose,
Legs go tight.
I drop down
Like the night.
Like a scales.
Give and take,
Take and give.
My legs ache.
So it ends
As it begins.
Off we climb
And no one wins.
8:26:28 PM