Saturday, July 17, 2010

Tom Clark - "Billy Williams"

Billy hits one out to the Heartbreak Hotel
It's just a long out
because at age 38
he doesn't pull the ball
any more

Even so
he's still The Whistler
The quiet man
from Whistler, Alabama
whose sweet swing
lingers in my song
on wings of memory
from 1957
or is it
1960?

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