Meagan Evans

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Proverb (Virginia)

            -“A whistling girl and a crowing hen never do come to a very good end.”
                                                                        -Great-Grandma, Ruth Evans
                                                                        -Great-Great-Grandma, Sarah Salyer
                                                                         

so keep your beak shut beak
shut keep your beak
like a paint-shut window
and flee the pan that waits

keep your lips thin lips
thin keep your lips
like a rain-thinned solo 
and hold the pan that waits

so keep your eye wide eye
wide keep your eye
like a pain-wide minnow
and watch the pan that waits 

keep your head down head
down keep your head
on a lain-down pillow
you know the pan that waits

            (you know its flat black eye
            you know its back flat eye
            you know its black fat eye
            you know its fry fry fry
           
            you know its black bat fly
            you know its bleak cat high
            you know its flat bleat cry
            you know its fry fry fry

            you know its solo window
            you know its pillow minnow
            you know its minnow solo
            its pillow window
           
            you know its window minnow
            you know its solo pillow
            so close that throat-crow
            don’t blow don’t blow)

 

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