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What a weight
Moans into a microphone
A downstairs tremor
Like platform shoes
Dissolving into dust
Koko Berkley is a blues mama
One gold tooth richer than a maid
Washbasin wide hip-handles
Pull the world around her
Like Democritus playing blackjacks
With atoms
Her daddy upped and died
Beleaguered to the last
By daughters and barflies
Now she sings
Songs bracletted in gold