Refined not Created
August 24, 2006
The sugar refinery
seems to operate
yet i’ve never witnessed an act
of refining
or manufacturing
yet the trains go in and out
just before
New Brighton
and slightly east of the drive
Is the sugar squeezed
from beets?
but certainly not
sugar cane
tasty when thrashed pulled through ringers
dripping sticky on humid day
refined not created
sugar from the ground
or canes sprouted from Hawaii
half a globe around
October 22, 2006 at 5:42 am
[...] Along with Mr. Lenker of Steamboat Island and his guitar, large hounds and varied livestock, Dave reads poems Refined, Not Created and Aye Carpaethia, while Bill sings about the Man with a Rebel Soul – followed by Dave reading This and That with guitar improvisation from deep in the woodshop studio. [...]