Dedicated to the GAFB/HiPockets/Poppy Star reunion 2010, with love to all, Amers

WITH ABANDON

Abandon hangups
all ye who enter here

Abandon your present
your what-happened-since-then
Embrace the ever-present past

Pick up a tambourine
Beat it til your hands bruise
Sing til it hurts
Play til your fingers remember
where their callouses were

Laugh til you cry
Live like it’s your last day on earth
Like it’s the end of your shift

Grab a cold beer, flop down here
and tell me all about it

We remain gypsies
no matter what path we chose
The world will never see anything like it again

Time and place
Ribs and space

Perrrrrrfection

Amy Barlow Liberatore
Santa Monica, August 15, 2010 (the morning after)