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Choctaw remnants
In 1901 he was digging among the Choctaw
he did a lot of that Peabody
from Harvard university in Cambridge mass
by the Charles river
Where they chased long ago
the clam digging Naticks away
but Charles digging for what no how
To find the meaning of life?
to characterize and label?
to find the meaning of anthros?
to find the meaning of polis -
the original first people -
to fundamental elements?
to adventure, yankee like,
in the dirt?
who knows?
who knows what goes through
a Peabody brain -
drowsed on the edge
of the 20th century?
You can read about it in deep blues,
robert palmer starts his great journey into America’s nurturing river of insight - blues -
looking over the shoulder of Charles Peabody
explorer artificer gravedigger extraordinaire
Peabody went down to Mississippi
where the boll weevil rules over all
he heard the black work song
the thing Elvis and Dylan heard
He heard them singing while
they were doing the shoveling digging
and today tonight among bead blankets loving cups spirits wandering
in some kind of Kane Xanadu
dug up Choctaw remnants in a former cyclotron
from near Clarksdale
today tonight.
© Copyright 2004 Jack Vaughan.
Last update: 4/4/2004; 8:46:56 PM.
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