Human Flower Project

Thursday, December 18, 2008

Be Seated

Editor’s Note: Your average Josephine likes nothing more than soaking up the sensorium of a well-made garden. But real gardeners generally can’t stand such passivity. Allen Bush is the latter, and sent us a lyric on the theme. “This was just for fun,” writes Allen. “It started-out as an essay on why gardeners have a hard time sitting in their own gardens. It got pared down to this.”

Seat

I’m diggin’ you.
I dig you like an old soul record.
Just sit back. Relax. Listen to the 8-track.
—Me’Shell Ndege’Ocello

The April garden is a cinch
You can’t go wrong
Red-hot August God help me
Imagine swarming mosquitoes
Sit back. Relax. Listen to the eight track.

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