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I woke up a lot last night
and really wanted to get up.
I feel like I have tendinitis
in my thumb—
much writing with a pencil
and playing my stringed intruments
with a plectrum.

There’s an angel image that
comes to mind—why can’t I find it?
The angels were playing big round lutes—
I’m thinking
of that Manet painting of
well-dressed lute-playing men with their
naked girlfriends.

But there’s another very
sexy image, a mixed-gender
lute-playing foursome—fleshy-chested
woman in
the foreground—fat, hovering
putti babies with cute testes
and penises.

Often the lutes are large—they
needed to be big to be loud.
So charming that the paintings often
portray jams
or rehearsals!—boy holding
cello, lutanist woman, eyes
under his wing.

Or just people practicing—
barefoot young red-haired girl or boy
looking intently at the fingers of
their left hand,
while their right testingly strums,
intent eyes showing: that angel
means business.

I’m no angel, but I played

my mandolin and fiddle
with friends last night—my bouzouki too—
Come on, boys
let’s go to hunting—and a
rooster crow, see-line, and she go
back home see-line.