David Amram on the piano
Behind the Woody poets
As they spoke
Music curling around
Every block as
You walked Okemah
Queen of Okemah
In the BBQ place
Demanding ribs sold out
(Brisket best we have
Ever had, by the way—
Papa’s Backyard BBQ)
John Fullbright saying
This is the only place
I wanna be when I’m gone
And the only place
I don’t want to be
When I’m here
Arlo coming on to tell us
I’m just going to play
Some of the old man’s songs
And pointing toward
The cemetery where his
Kinfolk are buried
And telling us
About Woody in hospital
And the only person
Who knew him was a man
Who had eaten a copy
Of Bound for Glory
NOTE: This past weekend was the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival in Okemah, Oklahoma, about 2 hours south of here. I got to be a Woody Poet at a reading and enjoy the entire Saturday lineup of fabulous musicians that ended with John Fullbright and Arlo Guthrie at the Pastures of Plenty with a full moon rising beside the stage.
And today is Woody’s birthday.
Rural Oklahoma Museum of Poetry 
Crystal theater, Pastures of Plenty Concert. Music on every corner. Happy people everywhere. I believe Woody would approve.