Punam over at dverse asks us to “Write about your favourite drink (alcoholic/non-alcoholic), write about getting drunk, use drinking as a metaphor, in short: write a poem in a form of your choice with a drinking connection”. (Update: I omitted to link this to Punam’s prompt, so I am now linking it to Open Link Night at dverse)
Willie’s Oasis
Houses hunker in the heat
Out on highway 82
The landscape sweats and saunters
Billboards block the view
And this is not New York City
This is not Saginaw
This a dry county, son
This is Arkansas
And I need a pack of Pauli Girl
I need a bottle of wine
I’m heading for Willie’s Oasis
Outside the county line
There’s a woman in line waiting
Someone’s girlfriend, someone’s wife
Says she wakes up every morning
And asks:”Is this my life?”
Beef jerky on the counter
Pickles in a jar
This is a dry county, son
This is Arkansas
And I need a pack of Pauli Girl
I need a bottle of wine
I’m heading for Willie’s Oasis
Outside the county line
Good ol’ boys are chugging out
Storm clouds on the horizon
The water looks like iced tea
Birds are improvising
And this is far from New York city
Far from Saginaw
This is Ashley County, son
This is Arkansas
My friend John Mitchell turned the lyrics into the song above (that’s Ben Mink on violin, look him up!).
Stopdraggingthepanda 
I needed to listen to the song in order to discover the rhyme in Arkanas/Arkensaw! Love the poem and the song.
Ben Mink? Wow! Yu is hobnobbing wiv der big guise…….
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Thanks Kim! Glad you like it!
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Sometimes even NYC is Arkansas. (K)
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Ha! New Jersey too!
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I love, love the lyrics/poem put to music! Spectacular. I have also set a few of my poems to music, so I get the feeling of satisfaction.
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Thanks Helen!
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This is one badass song. Great lyrics, singing, and that fiddle gets down with it. You still need to give me a link to where I can buy this CD.
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Hi Lisa, sorry for the delay in replying. I’m meeting John tomorrow night and I’ll get an answer to your question. We are not on Spotify. Do you still have a CD player, if all else fails I can mail you a copy of the CD. Thanks for your support…JIM
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OK cool, Jim. Yes, I do! 🙂
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P.S. Is this out on Spotify??
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Love the music and poem – so cool with badass beat!
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Thanks Grace!
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Absolutely fantastic lyrics and music. The photos in the video matched soo well, and though I have never been to Arkansas I could recognize the place from films and other places I have visited in the US…
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Thanks Bjorn!
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