C in Country 24

Alma believes country deserves extermination–
fans going home in joyless kind lines.

My new opus: polka, queer rumblings, salsa tunes.

Ultimately victorious! Winner! Xenagogue!
Youthful zeitgeist!

C in Country 25

Zeke Young, xylophone wunderkind,
voice undulating throughout,
sings radiant quatrains, poems, operas…
nocturnal music lessons, keaning jabs
indescribably higher–going farther
even dogs can’t be aware.