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A Gouedard Jun 2014
The Miner, Absolom
(a haibun)


green hill where sheep graze
white bones and coal, buried, held
seasons all the same
  
My grandfather worked in the mines from age thirteen to seventy. His life was closed in by mountains, the green one at the back, the dark looming one at the front and the pit head along the valley., winding the men in and out of the shaft, day after day, dawn until dusk when they came home singing  

boots ring on the road
deep valley voices echo
backyard starlit smoke

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They worked on their bellies or crouched, often in water for days, water that undermines rock. Shaft collapses where frequent. Life was cheap. He came home covered in coal dust to his wife and two sons, sons he was determined to keep out of the mines. Yet he loved that coal - coal that he always polished with care before lighting a fire, brushing dust off black diamond surfaces.

water breaks through rock
with wood and straining shoulders
man becomes the beam

He saved twenty lives that day, men he had known from boyhood. When his lungs were affected they laid him off, no pay, no pension, no life. He bought an insurance book with the money he had and every day he trudged over the mountains and valleys gathering pennies that would help to secure some livelihood to the widows who lost their men in the mines. He never told his wife that when a family couldn't pay he put the pennies in for them rather than leave them unprotected.

winter, summer, fall
the mountain hangs over all
tired to the backbone

When the mines were nationalised my grandfather went straight back to the coal face despite his age. He wasn't going to miss those days of glory. Safety was suddenly the watchword and changes were made very fast. Hot showers were installed at the pit head and the miners came home clean at last.

men stripped to the skin
hot water, steam, baptised
brothers singing hymns
we worked it out, she had,
lived there over fifty years,
clean and tidy. the nightmare
over, i can face it.

face those that come with claims
and accusations,those with self
importance.

it seems it may be all religious,
i told him i did not believe,
it is just a story.

a good story at that.

absolom,the third son of david.

sbm.
looking for numerals?        while there before

you stands solomon, cracked regarding his son.



absolom, oh absolom.            looking for god?



while all the while they are wanting your money.



looking for  wool gloves? all a plenty  at the cathedral.



this is where they display their wares, while the

architecture outside looks vaguely roman.



sbm.
that mark denotes a question,
a line in a simple verse.

why do i write of him, does
it strike a chord. you know

i started to think of all
the past things at once.

history can be too much to bear,
in one sitting.

maybe his heart broke.

too.

sbm.
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Johnny Noiπ Apr 2018
Tony read the lyrics to Charly improvising the melody and catching hold of a beat. “Yeh,” said Charly, hearing the tune in his head. “What’s this called?”
Tony called out to Whitman, “Say, Walt, what’s this called?”
“O Robot, My Robot!” Whitman yelled.
“Robot, My Robot. Let’s give it the once around,” Charly said slamming his fingers into the black keys and nattering Joplin-esque boogie-woogie until Tony joined in. “Those sweaty robot Romans love to get beneath
your dripping engine’s coiling heat, it’s pure bliss
From your nose to your feet;
Your copper baby's body
Hanging from the silver cross
Between your twin electric mountains;
Your robot children at their robot mother’s ***,
Baby, I adjure you to bury your dead w/ them,
In the serpentine hills of time’s aluminum armpit
Where your projectile farts collide with the **** of the stars,
In the cosmic slaughterhouse of wheel and woe,
You take off ur bra for those crying brats &
I am the one that gets disenchanted don't u know;
I'm all through w/ with ur ****** platinum facade,
ur the robot maiden made of iron,
w/ your robot apples made of honor,
That's when I will ride thee into the sun
‘til 1 a.m. I, tell thee of bliss,
oh on this night of bliss!
How like the son, my son, u are to me, O
my son, oh robot, my robot! My robot!
Oh, my android Absolom
beneath the shadow of the robot moon,
Telling thee of bliss, Oh robot my robot!
Oh I, I, I, my my my robot my robot, I, I, I,
my robot my robot!
Telling thee of bliss beneath the robot moon (repeat 6x).”
He repeated the refrain as instructed, the chants of “robot my robot” and “telling thee of bliss” rising from everyone’s lips and reaching the door to the kids loitering on the Boulevard. The kids hearing “O Robot! My Robot!” booming in a chorus of parent's voices took up the chant knowing nothing of its origin; only placing it within the scope of Miklós Toldi’s influence.
The rest of the night was a blur. Tony had gained a new following; the older generation hooked on the cryptically rhythmic, “oh android Absolom beneath the shadow of the robot moon.”
He wanted to release ‘Oh Robot My Robot’ right away but it was Whitman’s copyright.
crescendo.

#robinsoncrusoe.

those books, that music.

rises. zadok was a priest.



#legend.

here  again we have

absolom.         aided.



#hebron



your brother killed him.



#crescendo.



some of us know why.



sbm.

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