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Viceroy

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Chorus: Gene Logsdon's wonderful untitled poem, used with permission

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A hooded merganser and I had a little talk on the reservoir
I said “I’m not sure what I’m doing with my life”
And he said “You’re wasting it.
You drink too much beer and you smoke too much sneezeweed
You always want to be off in some state of sedation.
You never learned to be lucid in waking.”
I paddled through Wenzel cove and up toward the park boundary
Saw the giant carp laying halfway out of the water
Before he turned and swam into the deeper channel
On up to the beaver dam with the willows hanging low over the water
Tied the canoe up and stepped out
Into the cottonwoods to stretch my legs.

“I catch a monarch with a torn wing
And I stare at it in awe
Or is it a viceroy I am beholding?
The insect trembles in my open hand
Or is my hand trembling?” -Gene Logsdon
Is the whole world trembling?

You said don’t let my world grow smaller, make it larger
Well, I’m trying, but I’m fighting my instincts.
That’s as it should be, I guess.
I’ve usually thought of myself as a decent person
But I’m seeing there’s some self deception involved with that.
I got so caught up in my little problems
That I forgot what I was doing here in the first place
It’s on the tip of my tongue.

“I catch a monarch with a torn wing
And I stare at it in awe
Or is it a viceroy I am beholding?
The insect trembles in my open hand
Or is my hand trembling?” -GL

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from John Depew, released February 16, 2021
John Depew- guitar, vocal

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bluegrass-adjacent songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. frier of chicken, salad eater, coffee drinker.

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