45 Poems of Protest - "Lockdown Day 8 Down Margaritaville Way" by Karla Linn Merrifield (Eleventh Transmission)

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Lockdown Day 8 Down Margaritaville Way

Let there now be tequila and weed in the buttery hour after trying to kick
bug-butt, hunched over my laptop, punching poetry on my keyboard as
if to further inoculate against so-designated Covid-19, while Edgar Allen,
pet raven, totem corvid of this afternoon, covets the pistachios in my
cupboard, settling for tortilla chips with permission to binge-eat while I
belch a couple more lines toward a rare rant, the good therapy of a
metaphoric shitpissbuckdamhell, cloaking as prose, posing quasi-
Proustianesque in the casting of a spell incognito—Nevermore, o,
pestilence—

before it releases me to take up the blisses of an acoustic guitar (which,
so intrigues the bird with its shiny steel strings, he sings along in croaky
duet) as evening comes in peace along the Caloosahatchee River
carrying the melody toward the dark of moon.

Sip. Toke. Turn the flu

tune into Florida-da,

Buffett-haibun played.

Biography
Karla Linn Merrifield has had 800+ poems appear in dozens of journals
and anthologies. She has 14 books to her credit. Following her 2018
Psyche’s Scroll (Poetry Box Select) is the newly released full-length book
Athabaskan Fractal: Poems of the Far North from Cirque Press. She is
currently at work on a poetry collection, My Body the Guitar, inspired by
famous guitarists and their guitars; the book is slated to be published in
December 2021 by Before Your Quiet Eyes Publications Holograph
Series (Rochester, NY). She is a frequent contributor to The Songs of
Eretz Poetry Review.
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Previously published in Eleventh Transmission:
"L ove in the Time of Corona(virus)" by Amanda Haecker.

Published April 6, 2020

45 Poems of Protest: The Pandemic

Lockdown Day 8 Down Margaritaville Way

by Karla Linn Merrifield
(North Fort Myers, Florida, USA)

"Lockdown Day 8 Down Margaritaville Way" by Karla Linn Merrifield