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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
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
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
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)
7 comments:
And what's more, they tell me I was born under that sign. (The one on top, that is.)
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
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.
emptying beer bottle/ waning moon/waiting
Tomorrow Maybe
mountain behind mountain behind mountain
fading ..
the cry of a cuckoo
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
I'm so glad about the blue ribbon
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Born under a Pabst Sign
Yeah, me too.
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