Scruggs Style

Posted on February 9, 2010 by Dave Bonta

Our only god the clock
has the face of a banjo
& three efficient fingers.
On the weekends we get
behind its wheel & go.
Drunk & loud, you want
everything to clatter apart
at once: breakdown! But
we’re out of the mountains,
so it’s full speed ahead,
boys — rewind & play.
When Earl says the word,
the snow will return to the sky.

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Dave Bonta (bio) crowd-sources his problems by following his gut, which he shares with one quadrillion of his closest microbial friends --- a tight-knit, symbiotic community comprising some 500 different species of bacteria, fungi, and protozoa.
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2 Responses to Scruggs Style

  1. Dianne at Rhythm of the Light says:
    February 9, 2010 at 11:58 pm

    three fingers, and not a hand to pick with.

    sigh

    powerful stuff.

    check out my local boys. Newly ensembled: Little Black Train. (I’m strongly encouraging more of their frailin’ banjo in their songs…)

    fondly,
    Dianne

    • Dave says:
      February 10, 2010 at 10:48 pm

      Where can I find them online? All I saw on YouTube were covers of the song of that title. I liked the photo of your banjo-playing brother on your blog, though! Looks like quite a character.