- Keith Banner
Feels So Good
there it was
all stupid and sweet
like it was taking off its towel
to that music
coming from the african-american gentleman's
garage
chuck mangione's 'feels so good'
and cigar smoke
a table saw
next door
a couple of kids
ask me what i'm doing
and i say walking
and they ask me what i'm doing again
and i say walking
and that goes on for
a while until their voices fade and then
it comes at me
sky
nothing but
as i walk down a hill of
crooked sidewalk
lemontree is the street name
and it's just something
but nothing
but chuck mangione
and kid voices
and cigar smoke
and all the makeshift
half-alive houses
not calling out as much
as looking away
kind of embarrassed
not wanting to say anything
that sky
is embarrassing
i guess
and then
up kingsbury past that
one house with the
pitbull inside a chainlink fence
standing there
not barking or mad
his face saying
hey you yeah i forget your name -- yeah you -- what's your name again?
i'm really bad at names
