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July 20, 2005

Identity is the Cause of Warts

Rod Smith

Listen to the poem (MP3, 2:05, 2.5MB) from Rod's new CD "Fear the Sky" (Narrowhouse Recordings, 2005).

i have a toad. its name is buber. buber the toad. buber raises rabbits. the rabbits live in a big can named big can. or rabbit can. mostly they complain. buber bangs the lid for them to calm down. it doesn't work. at the last annual convening of the international monetary fund buber spoke to a packed house about toadstuff. he talked it up good & the bankers banged their lids. sometimes buber & me smoke pot. other times usually while banging buber has a twitch of sympathy but always for himself & he calls the phone & it says anything so he bangs on it too Π& i feel sorry for it & hang around with all these other things in the room wondering about this banging toad in my life. buber gets a bygosh bygolly expression which on a toad looks like all their other expressions but that toad'll sing "Little girl I don't work in no candy kitchen / Na & I don't sell no chewin' gum." do any of you folks have toads. can you help me through my toad difficulties. sometimes i lie asleep all night. i just can't take it anywhere anymore. sometimes i think i should get a frog instead but my friend jigs casey has a frog & he built a nuclear weapon with it & i'd really appreciate it if you wouldn't call me anymore.

Posted by Rock Heals at July 20, 2005 12:40 AM