Howdy Neighbor

from Something I Forgot by Richard Haxton

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I’m out on my front porch
I got me a tale to tell
I don’t wear no sheet or burn no torch
Come over and set a spell

I’ll talk you a bunch of words
You tell me if you heard ‘em
I can see what you think of me
A reductio ad absurdum

I don’t use no spittoon
Ceci n’est pas un corncob pipe
Let’s set and see who turns out to be
The bona fide stereotype

I don’t wanna own no one
Don’t wanna be no one’s massa
I’ll take you from Jethro Clampett and Daisy Duke
To the redneck tabula rasa

Howdy neighbor

You say you can read my ways
By my accent and my clothing
You imply that every word I say
Is a case of my own self loathing

Let me rustle us up some grits
Put on my overall jeans
Lemme take you down to Mississippi
It’s the capital of New Orleans

I’ll be Joe Christmas meets The Misfit
Miss Dubois meets Miss Eudora
Cousin Lyman meets Bigger Thomas
The redneck Jew explora
Prevail meets endura

Irony is the cruelest month
Whan that Aprill, with his shoures soote
Makes the heart grow to see what used to be
Another ignat moota foota
Howdy neighbor

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from Something I Forgot, released December 12, 2014

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Richard Haxton Los Angeles, California

From the middle of Mississippi, served in Viet Nam in Thailand, lives 5,000 feet from the world's oldest freeway. Searches for transcendence - or something - where science meets the spirit. Never quit fighting the war for the groove!

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