Sunday, 12 August 2012

Tomorrow Maybe (Waning Moon)


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 Illinois Central Railroad freight cars in South Water Street freight terminal, Chicago, Illinois, with Pabst Blue Ribbon neon sign: photo by Jack Delano, April 1943 (Farm Security Administration.Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)




One more Saturday night
a neon sky
foaming with great hops
clear pale gold
fizzing
inside a huge vacuous
gas bubble


Pabst Blue Ribbon Ghost Sign, Rockford, Illinois: photo by Melissa Bevins, 9 January 2011

Image, Source: intermediary roll film
   
Cowboy drinking a bottle of beer in booth of beer parlor, Alpine, Texas: photo by Russell Lee, May 1939 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)


Pabst Blue Ribbon sign, Cottleville, Missouri: photo by Caveman Chuck Coker, 27 May 2010
 
Image, Source: digital file from intermediary roll film

Cowboy drinking beer in beer parlor, Alpine, Texas: photo by Russell Lee, May 1939 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)
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7 comments:

  1. TC12 August 2012 at 08:18

    And what's more, they tell me I was born under that sign. (The one on top, that is.)

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  2. STEPHEN RATCLIFFE12 August 2012 at 08:43

    Tom,

    From the glory days of the sign in Jack Delano's photo to almost forgotten in Melissa Bevins Ghost Sign, Whatever Happened to Baby Pabst?

    8.12

    grey whiteness of fog against invisible
    ridge, jay calling from shadowed branch
    in foreground, sound of wave in channel

    motion between bodies, this
    system of coordinates

    therefore extension of type,
    first B, the second A

    grey white of fog reflected in channel,
    pelican flapping across toward horizon

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  3. vazambam (Vassilis Zambaras)12 August 2012 at 22:16

    This wasn't such a bad sign, was it?
    With so many blue-ribbon poems out there refreshing us, I'd say it was rather auspicious.

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  4. aditya12 August 2012 at 23:18

    emptying beer bottle/ waning moon/waiting

    Tomorrow Maybe

    mountain behind mountain behind mountain
    fading ..
    the cry of a cuckoo

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  5. Susan Kay Anderson13 August 2012 at 10:27

    That's how the rich relax
    isn't it? The golden brew
    fizzy tickling the nose
    after a day of backbreaking
    labor the body
    thirsty the mind
    numb with pain
    questions blackouts
    drymouth liquid

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  6. Susan Kay Anderson13 August 2012 at 10:42

    I'm so glad about the blue ribbon
    qua
    li
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    y

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  7. Unknown18 August 2012 at 06:05

    Born under a Pabst Sign

    Yeah, me too.

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