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Hard Nut Holler
(a tough snuff to swaller
& also impossible to foller)

and all the
neighboring
hollers, to
which I
give my
hardhearted
appreciation,
because grow
ing up with y
ou as neighb
ors, while see
mingly unrem
arkable at the
time, all I’m
saying here
is what a
naive arky,
packed his
bags full o’
the mullarky
of neglect of
neighborly
neighbors,
neighborly
neighs, even,
but look, and
yuck and sorr
ow I’d so many
lucky tomorrows
because alit with
the affluence of
human decency,
oh to retreat back
to naivete, given,
good cousins,
there’s nothing
like a holler
that, bullying
not, gets back
a congruent
holler, in
camaraderie,
encouragey
solidarity,
than, oh,
just any
other kind
of a whiny
holler, I’d
no idea how
high among
the hollers,
my own and
those neigh
boring, I

was at the

time, how

much high

er than 

those I

now and

more mod

ernly know

which are 

plain me

anspirited,
spent like
an axe me
ant to cut
one right

down to 

the ground,
and the old
cranky man
at the end
of the made
for teevee

movie gets
felled by the
tallest and
bullyest tree,
can’t thank
you enough
for planting
the seed and
I guess, hey,
laments just

like me and

that tree,
say maybe
a massive
oak, I don’t
really know 

what I’m try

ing to say
to you 
people
with he
art who
gave me
this art
of hang
ing out

with and

among all
the hollers,

I mean
how I 
so wish
for the
peace
and the
growth of
silence,
which I
might
should
offer
all you
hollerers
of back

in the day – 

I’m so sorry. 

it’s hard not 

to echo your
hollowed
out sent
iment now.