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Pocatello: photo by Julie Stokes, 8 January 2010
Bannock people, Idaho: photographer unknown, n.d.; image by Edulix, 4 July 2006
The Bannocks stand by the box.
They sway to the music.
A California truck driver
in with a load of pianos
shoots pool.
Their women
are not beautiful
they are not
but their eyes
have deep corridors in them
of brown hills of pain and
indecision and under every
lash
is a question no man, not
even their own
can answer.
Where is the deer?
That is not the question.
tic tok, stop de clock.
sings Fats Domino.
We all stand swaying.
it's someone's turn to shoot.
They sway to the music.
A California truck driver
in with a load of pianos
shoots pool.
Their women
are not beautiful
they are not
but their eyes
have deep corridors in them
of brown hills of pain and
indecision and under every
lash
is a question no man, not
even their own
can answer.
Where is the deer?
That is not the question.
tic tok, stop de clock.
sings Fats Domino.
We all stand swaying.
it's someone's turn to shoot.
Fats Domino singing "Blueberry Hill" on the Alan Freed Show, 1956: screenshot by Matthew Paul Argall, 29 March 2010
Home of Fats Domino, New Orleans (Marais Street side of building), with graffiti from the period after rumors surfaced that he had died in the post-Hurricane Katrina flooding. Later, it was reported that he had escaped with his life: photo by Infrogmation, January 2006
Edward Dorn (1929-1999): A Vague Love, from Geography (1968)
Fats Domino's Stop the Clock (Imperial 5875, b/w Did You Ever See a Dream Walking?) hit #103 on the national charts in September 1962
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