My Pappy’s Victrola

Are you really giving me shit
about where to put

my appy’s Victrola?
That was my Pappy’s

Victrola, it’s got
Jimmie Rodgers

and Mother Maybelle
scorched into the walnut.

That was my Pappy’s
Victrola

and everything else,
all this other stuff

can go in the fucking street.

–March 16, 2019