An Ode To the Album ‘Dirt’ by Alice in Chains

Jim White
Sep 21, 2022
art/photo by the author

After all the rain

I heard you can’t dam that river

and who is the giver

and would they open veins

it must be a sick man

to dig in that dirt

I’m certain they hurt

as they say, hate to feel

for real, it’s wild

this rooster awakes the child

from the angry chair

with crazy hair, all out of whack

is it to cure the junkhead from god smack?

or maybe something beyond

as if them bones will travel forever

but you and I know, no one stays down in a hole for eternity

how about we ask just one more time

is it going to rain when I die.

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Jim White

Creation. Transformation. Metamorphosis play. Onward. To float over desert expanse, on a breeze.