Hopperesque

Hopperesque

Friday 30 November 2018

Upon Your Soul


With a throat of brass, the jukebox eats live nickels raw
It can turn itself on or shut itself off
It has no hangovers, knows no regrets, and it never feels the need for sleep
Can you do that ?
What can you do that a jukebox can't, and do it ten times better than you

And it hammers at your nerves, and stabs you in the heart, and beats upon your soul -
but can you do that to the box ?

King Juke
Kenneth Fearing
1943

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