GOING GREEN AT THE 211 GALLERY by Jeff Callaway
On the Seventh
at seven
we all came alive
we came one
we came all
one Saturday night
the goal was to Go
Green and it just
felt right
to paint canvases green
that once were white
like born on a green light
Daddy-O
I thought I might drop
green words in lines
and hoped they might
rhyme and also be on time
I’m the Texas Outlaw Poet
I come correct
and have also come a
country mile
busted mc’s like lemons
I’m Tequila
salt
limes
and then Talkington’s Texas Radio
tuned in the dial
with psychedelic
country style
we all
kicked off our shoes
and the blues
and stayed a while
as the walls breathed
fine local art in lime green
and artists looked on
through dilated
in 3D
green eyes
and then all of a sudden
I realized
Athens, Texas was once
so named to be the
cultural epicenter of East
Texas
and so the 211 Gallery
welcomes us
so come
you poets
come painters
come musicians alike
let’s rise from the ashes
like a phoenix
and fight
for that long
faded dream
that once made
Athens come
to burn so
bright
for all of Texas
to see
how bout
another round
of Come And Take It
catered drinks
and one for me
and a toast
to an East Texas
art movement
to honor
our
ancestry.
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