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Stars Over Avon

from Dollar Movie by Goner

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I got some poems bound and a picture, the nose a little red from gin. Clippings from an Idaho paper, pages of verses from when he’d be hitched to a pole eight hours a day, insulating lines. Then home to dinner and beer and Jean and a walk among the tall pines. There were stars over Avon. There were kids on the village green. 50 to 60 to 71, what’s it mean? Sparking awake to smell of dust, he’d creak past the icebox. Some nights it was hard to get started. Some nights he didn’t want it to stop. With the moon melting into the back porch, staring white off the notepad, how do you fill in the spaces? How can you ache so bad for the stars over Avon and the graves on the village green? Hitching from Christmas to Christmas, what’s it mean? He thought it all had to rhyme. I picture my father’s father back to bed. Picture him not sleeping and the stars over Avon and the kids on the village green and all those young dead poets buying jeans. Ah the stars over Avon and the graves on the village green. They’re cheering on all the Henry fools like Norman and me. How you gonna make it rhyme? You’re running short on time. So on my porch across from so-called heaven, I throw away my tonic and gin. A breeze pushes east from Idaho and school’s about to begin.

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from Dollar Movie, released June 1, 2002

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Goner crafts great songs, combining a poetic eye for detail, a cinematic sense of place and character, and an encyclopedic love of rocks both classic and indie.

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