overdrive,
electric
guitar,
he went
far,
Roy Orbison
face,
monster
bass,

James Dean
rebel
cause,
brought
the house
down,
grateful fans
applause,

no songwriter
guitar player
compared,
Merle went
places no
one f***ing
dared,

he lit his
audience's
fuse,
he topped
the charts,
got top
reviews,

dark night,
rival waited,
revved his
engine
tight,
"gonna take
out popular
Merle Travis
tonight,
before another
day's
light,
gonna put
myself on
stage in
Merle's
place."

As the crow
flies,
this music
you hear,
Broken Glass
written by
the spirit of
Merle Travis
who died that
night,

watch the
way the
crow
flies,
might be
one of
your heroes
dies,

Merle Travis's 
autographed
guitar
sits in his
empty
car seat,
bloody key
in music
hall of fame
museum,
hotwire
ties,
like Roy Orbison's
guitar sat in the
Traveling Wilburys
empty chair,
Dylan,
Lynne,
Petty,
Harrison,
Orbison,
music never
dies,

As The
Crow Flies:
The
Reincarnation
of Merle Travis.


Authors Note:
Merle Travis
actually died
of a heart
attack in 1983.
I love to play
out a drama
in my poetry
as you, dear
readers know
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merle_Travis



Copyright 2006 Sage Sweetwater, firebrand lesbian novelist
http://home.earthlink.net/~sagesweetwater/