St Vincent Calling
How dare you I thought to the questioner
Out of bounds
The NPR reporter asks Annie Clark aka St. Vincent
Are you, are you, you know ok?
Referencing her latest song Smoking Section
Ok so maybe she takes pills I don’t know
Lives on the stage
Of bravery or depravity but it’s just a way
It’s ok
Like as Robert Plant once said in another interview
I’m basically public property
And she loves it ok! Center of attention
Because yes she is that interesting
Pantyhose torn down her sultry love-to-lick-it left thigh
But Annie stumbles to answer that odd last question
I could almost hear her head on the radio
Tilt into the microphone and register
I’m embarrassed
I thought no no how unfair
Let me pick up your ancient GHB from the floor
And dust your vulnerable seashells off
Don’t let someone make you feel that way Annie
That’s what makes you so special
Ok
So you wanted to kill a guy then kill yourself just to scare him a little more
So?
To fall on a rush hour flow of taxicabs below
Unnoticed by anyone
Happens in a song
And any way it’s not the end as you finally said
I want to tell you I think I understand
The powerful woman in you
Though I don’t know you
At all
That song
Long before that interrogation
Was a fetched pail from the well within me
Lifted and overflowing with poetry
Made me fall hopelessly in love with you
And I know ok? How that’d make you laugh
As an artist
Mission accomplished
That song from you
A few innocent bullets fired at my retreating feet
While you are apparently required to live your life
Hereafter
To the chains of that one song and moment of strife
As if that is all you will ever be or…Are
You ok?
I guess
That’s what I’m trying to say in a long-winded and poor kind of way
Ok?
Judge not
It’s just all a great song.
Copyright © Robert Trezise Jr. | Year Posted 2024
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