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from the album Frontera Dogs
Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs & Eric Muhs
November 2019

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To You Steve

To you, Steve
I was Sophia Loren
It's morning
You approached me
at the Wells Fargo ATM in Wallingford
as I withdraw forty dollars in fast cash
You wrapped in a blanket, sleepy, drowsy
almost all of you concrete
only the streetlights of your eyes
are green and red
Your skin jaundiced
I immediately say I don't have change
Can't give you a twenty
Well, we can go get change, I suppose
You say, I don't want money
Change, I can probably get
What I really need today is to get to Pioneer Square
or information on the bus that goes to Pioneer Square
I have an appointment with another lawyer at nine
I don't dispute that you are a lawyer
You are surely a casualty of stress
I say
This is your lucky day
I can take you that way
You will give me a ride
Yes, I say
Your incredulous quarter smile says where's your car
Before you get into the Prius
You eye it with approval
and you say
Do you have newspapers?
I don't want to ruin your car. Your seat.
You carefully put newspapers all over the front passenger seat
almost caressing it with compassion
It will hold you
Your nose is runny
You're a lawyer from Yakima
a class of seventy three graduate from the U
in your unsheltered decomposition
you say you think
I'm twenty years younger than I am
and I say
I'm a professor
You say
wow, appearances are really deceiving.
But you're really not talking about me
I'm just the pudding on the proof

You're a lawyer that cracked
going to meet a lawyer that didn't
yet.

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from Frontera Dogs, released December 21, 2019
Eric played the massed ukeleles.

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Eric Muhs Seattle, Washington

gigging musician since 1981 in Seattle's seminal "new wave" bands STUDENT NURSE & AUDIO LETER. Got into recording in late 80's in Santa Cruz with MATA RATA. Built homemade 4 track tape loop system for 200 + solo performances. Now live back in Seattle, where I make instruments & perform with Metal Men. I've got a modest solar-powered recording studio. More at www.invisiblemusicstudio.org ... more

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