. Kim Cochran
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Nebraska Kid I'm still a Nebraska kid Smell thick summer air Holding its breath before a down pour Feel brick streets beneath my bare feet Taste sweet melting Dairy Queen on my lips See grain silos towering over man-made lakes Outside the small town where I was born Watch flocks of migrating birds fly in formation across the evening sky Visit the graveyard where my relatives stay ..Waiting Place flowers Hear their whispering As I clear the autumn leaves covering their sleep Unpaved streets, model T's, snow, root cellars, my grandmothers handmade native rug, Water witches, well diggers, green thumbs, rainwater collected in drums ..How my grandfather love to dance to bands That traveled though small towns before the War Somewhere inside ..I'm still a Nebraska kid My father even taught me how to plant corn As if it would matter here I belong to the land that gave me birth Where echoes of my dark hair skin lay buried beneath A sod house But Now I live with seaweed on my tongue Fog swirling though my lungs Sand sticking to my feet Rhythms of ocean waves Pounding between my legs I have become the sea and it has become me Fish come out at night to dance with me The Spanish The Spanish rolled off this blond haired Golden Viking boy's tongue Like a conquistador Flash of armor Glint of a blade Hooves sloshing though cold rain Shook down from another age A delicately chiseled porcelain piece Of fine glass broke exquisitely Over my ears A sumptuous melody I could only feel As the drops floated through my dark hair Kissed my brow And left me there Doing A Little Time Mommy and Daddy are still on the phone Thumb swinging white boy is rapping Tattooed married Jesus ex-crack head Eyes closed smooth skinned knit cap Next to dark eyed sweetie with a piglet carved on her arm Cosmic kids Under glass Mommy's got a foot fetish Dirty beat up tennis shoes And a purse full of prescription drugs Daddy's stuffing his face between Brittany Spears white creamy legs I'm on a bubble gum high Waiting my turn When I heard a rumor they found Gilagmesh Somewhere under Ur Bringing him back to the States Along with all the other stolen loot Plus Iraqi oil should keep the US afloat ..For a little while anyway I turned to a shaved head next to me With windmills on his cell phone Asked him if he was Doing time on the Darshan line Waiting for another caf� latte Or just here to buy a few mementos on ebay From the Bush wars Main Page
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