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Kara Jackson

Kara Jackson is an American poet, singer, and songwriter. She is from Oak Park, Illinois. Jackson was named the United States National Youth Poet Laureate from 2019 to 2020. Her work has appeared in POETRY, Frontier Poetry, Rookie Mag, Nimrod Literary Journal, The Lily, and Saint Heron. more »

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take the story of Rat who’s headed west 
his buddy once told him he likes the girls there best 
centuries of singers, men who pay their rent 
waxing poetic of a woman’s innocence 

rat was batshit and barely played a lick 
he took to the highway high off headiness 
he and his woman saw through an awful split  
the road his only hope of falsifying it 

come on come on come on down 
come on come on down 

the wheels will turn ur weary around

california calls him by his collar 
his waves were ill behaved so now he doesn’t bother 
shook the country from him like a cub clawing it’s father 
couldn’t buy compassion cause it’d cost him 40 dollars 

only thing that’s cheap 
seems to be his dreams 
even his defeat’s 
costing him something 

bargain bargain bargain bargain bargain bargain bargain 
rat was eating trash out of the back of someone’s garden 
what he wouldn’t give to eat some grits to start his morning 
fascinated by the face of the woman who warms them 

rat has made his bath 
and this is one he’ll surely drown in 
imitating tales of cowboy trails 
and traveling men 
hasn’t satisfied a single one of 
his new women 
the one he left alone is in their home 
and busy hexin 

come on come on come on home 
come on come on home 
at least she’ll probably bury your bones

country boys know better 
than to leave that weather 
they know 
better 
they know 
better 

and a country boy knows 
that wherever he goes
it’ll show 
it’ll show 
it’ll show 
it’ll show 

come on come on come on down 
come on come on down 
bring our buddy rat back around 

take the story of rat who headed west 
his brain hallucinatin his ego in his chest 
his friends they never told him it’d cost him  close to death 
at home his woman carves another kind of casket 
the kind he gladly climbs 
and closes himself in

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