“Since this podcast is going reasonably well, I’m going to read “Scowl.”
Scowl
By Ginsey Allens
For Fat Ron
I
I saw the scummiest bums of my generation enjoy their fatness, sweating, idiotic,
sun-burnt,
sleeping away under the grape-vines at noon readying an angry toot,
extended-bucket schemesters heaving for the methamphetamedic connection to the cat
funeral in the fiduciary fight,
…
III
Fat Ron! I’m with you and your pinned legs
where you were sleepier than I am
I’m with you and Runyon
when with money he’s confused
I’m with you and Drill
when he claims the buckets of another
I’m with you in the dirt
when your water went unpaid
I’m with you in the vineyard
in my nightmares you toddle from a TV-dinner on Trump-Toots across
“Great America Again” in sweats to the gates of my sanity in the Southern scum
Wadmalaw Island, 2019
#Dingus