<div class="line">There was a time</div>
<div class="line">when it meant everything,</div>
<div class="line">when distortion was important,</div>
<div class="line">feedback held the world back, </div>
<div class="line">delay delayed the inevitable. </div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line">Unable to part with it,</div>
<div class="line">I open up the case,</div>
<div class="line">strum a few chords,</div>
<div class="line">feel the soreness of my fingertips,</div>
<div class="line">no longer hardened</div>
<div class="line">by calluses.</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line">It doesn’t matter </div>
<div class="line">that I wasn’t very good at it,</div>
<div class="line">or that it didn’t get me laid,</div>
<div class="line">or make me rich and famous, </div>
<div class="line">or that my ears never really did </div>
<div class="line">stop ringing. </div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line">Now the strings won’t stay in tune,</div>
<div class="line">the neck needs adjusting,</div>
<div class="line">the output jack cracks,</div>
<div class="line">when I plug it in</div>
<div class="line">to an old practice amp. </div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line">So much is like that.</div>
<div class="line">So much that won’t stay in tune,</div>
<div class="line">that cracks and softens </div>
<div class="line">and can’t be parted with.</div><figure class="wp-block-audio"><audio controls src="https://admin.rattle.com/audio/MargraveBlue.mp3"></audio></figure>

Passenger Deck

What Is at the Heart of it Is a Voracious Clinging to What Is Called Love

Blue Fender Telecaster

<div class="line">Who had to die to get to this moment?</div>
<div class="line">Your ass planted on the ground</div>
<div class="line">of the back patio,</div>
<div class="line">putting together this cheap table</div>
<div class="line">and chairs from Ikea.</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line">Think of the wars that had to be fought,</div>
<div class="line">the bloodbaths,</div>
<div class="line">the overthrowing of kings and kingdoms.</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line">The loggers who cut the wood</div>
<div class="line">in the forests of Romania,</div>
<div class="line">and Lithuania and Latvia,</div>
<div class="line">and in Lowndes, Alabama.</div>
<div class="line">Or the young environmentalist</div>
<div class="line">tweeting from her wooden table</div>
<div class="line">about the dangers of deforestation.</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line">Think of the men and women sweating in factories</div>
<div class="line">in China and Vietnam and Malaysia and Myanmar,</div>
<div class="line">in Poland and North America.</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line">The workers who built the skyscrapers,</div>
<div class="line">harnessed on platforms 100 stories high,</div>
<div class="line">feet dangling over cities,</div>
<div class="line">so you can try to decipher these directions</div>
<div class="line">drawn up by some Swedish surrealist</div>
<div class="line">in a corporate high rise,</div>
<div class="line">eating meatballs at his desk.</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line">The welders who melted steel</div>
<div class="line">and shaped it and reshaped it</div>
<div class="line">into containers,</div>
<div class="line">the cranes that lifted those containers off ships,</div>
<div class="line">the longshoreman who unloaded the cargo</div>
<div class="line">at the port of Los Angeles,</div>
<div class="line">miles from where you live.</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line">Think of the men in yellow hardhats</div>
<div class="line">driving bulldozers over dirt,</div>
<div class="line">laying gravel and asphalt,</div>
<div class="line">tar on their shoes</div>
<div class="line">and under their fingernails</div>
<div class="line">and in their lungs and noses.</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line">The roads and freeways and overpasses,</div>
<div class="line">the bridges so trucks from the port</div>
<div class="line">can deliver this furniture</div>
<div class="line">to the warehouse,</div>
<div class="line">where other trucks will deliver</div>
<div class="line">it to your front door.</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line">Here, in this house that you rent,</div>
<div class="line">think of the carpenters,</div>
<div class="line">the cement mixed for the foundation,</div>
<div class="line">the original plumbers and electricians</div>
<div class="line">older than your dead grandparents,</div>
<div class="line">where tonight you and Diliana</div>
<div class="line">will eat dinner in the backyard,</div>
<div class="line">the food she’s assembled</div>
<div class="line">on this table you’ve assembled,</div>
<div class="line">an open bottle of wine</div>
<div class="line">under a gorgeous June sky,</div>
<div class="line">think of the sacrifice it took</div>
<div class="line">to make this moment happen,</div>
<div class="line">the tightening of things,</div>
<div class="line">the plugging things in,</div>
<div class="line">the hammering things down</div>
<div class="line">to hold it all together.</div><figure class="wp-block-audio"><audio controls src="https://admin.rattle.com/audio/MargraveIkea.mp3"></audio></figure>

A Shipwrecked Person

The Accordion

Putting Together Ikea Furniture

<p class="epil"><em>in memory of Gerald Locklin (1941–2021)</em></p>
<div class="line">Nobody is more surprised than he is.</div>
<div class="line">First of all, Toad doesn’t believe in heaven,</div>
<div class="line">and secondly, even if he did,</div>
<div class="line">he never expected to visit.</div>
<div> </div>
<div class="line">In fact, he’s minorly disappointed.</div>
<div class="line">Has he failed to achieve the properly</div>
<div class="line">debauched life he so often courted?</div>
<div> </div>
<div class="line">But the food tastes good.</div>
<div class="line">And you can drink all the frothy beer you want</div>
<div class="line">and never have to go the bathroom.</div>
<div> </div>
<div class="line">The salads are made just the way he likes them too,</div>
<div class="line">with lots of crunchy iceberg lettuce</div>
<div class="line">and a good Roquefort dressing.</div>
<div class="line">(But who is he kidding?</div>
<div class="line">Nobody eats salads here.)</div>
<div> </div>
<div class="line">At least there aren’t any white clouds,</div>
<div class="line">or saints with haloes,</div>
<div class="line">just a dive bar with a few pretty angels.</div>
<div> </div>
<div class="line">They even have a poetry night!</div>
<div> </div>
<div class="line">And though the audience is dead</div>
<div class="line">and the open mic literally goes on forever,</div>
<div class="line">this time it isn’t annoying,</div>
<div class="line">but filled with names like Dante and Homer</div>
<div class="line">and Shakespeare and Szymborska …</div>
<div> </div>
<div class="line">“Hello Toad,” says his old pal Bukowski,</div>
<div class="line">who approaches the bar and pulls up a stool.</div>
<div class="line">“Good to see you again, Hank,” says Toad,</div>
<div class="line">as they clink their glasses and take a drink,</div>
<div class="line">not to their health, but ours.</div><figure class="wp-block-audio"><audio controls src="https://admin.rattle.com/audio/MargraveToad.mp3"></audio></figure>

Self-Therapy

Poets Respond

Eating Mashed Potatoes

Toad Dies and Goes to Heaven

<div class="line">As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning</div>
<div class="line">from uneasy dreams, he found himself</div>
<div class="line">cancelled by a Twitter mob.</div>
<div class="line">“What happened?” he thought,</div>
<div class="line">before the movers came</div>
<div class="line">and took away his bed.</div>
<div> </div>
<div class="line">After that, they took his desk,</div>
<div class="line">the clothes in his closet,</div>
<div class="line">all the books</div>
<div class="line">on his shelf.</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line">Of course, he was used to people</div>
<div class="line">making up stories about him.</div>
<div class="line">The last time it happened,</div>
<div class="line">he’d lost his job,</div>
<div class="line">his parents,</div>
<div class="line">even his beloved sister Grete.</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line">Maybe they’re right? he thought.</div>
<div class="line">Maybe I am a monster.</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line">Gregor’s room was spotless now,</div>
<div class="line">even his filth wiped clean,</div>
<div class="line">just a single nail in the wall</div>
<div class="line">where that old picture</div>
<div class="line">of the pinup girl used to hang.</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line">He handed the landlord his keys,</div>
<div class="line">then stepped outside.</div>
<div class="line">A tow truck was lifting</div>
<div class="line">his car onto a flatbed.</div>
<div class="line">A small crowd of protesters</div>
<div class="line">had amassed on the curb</div>
<div class="line">demanding he apologize.</div>
<div> </div>
<div class="line">“I’m sorry,” he said,</div>
<div class="line">though he didn’t know what for,</div>
<div class="line">which only made them angrier.</div>
<div> </div>
<div class="line">Tired from his restless sleep,</div>
<div class="line">he decided to walk to a nearby Starbucks</div>
<div class="line">and buy a coffee,</div>
<div class="line">only to find his debit card declined.</div>
<div> </div>
<div class="line">“Sorrynotsorry,” said the young barista,</div>
<div class="line">who immediately</div>
<div class="line">hashtagged this with a photo</div>
<div class="line">of him on Twitter.</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line">Gregor sighed</div>
<div class="line">as the two police officers</div>
<div class="line">escorted him out.</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line">He glanced at the sky one last time</div>
<div class="line">before they shoved him</div>
<div class="line">in the back of a van.</div>
<div class="line">The day was overcast.</div>
<div class="line">The sun cancelled by clouds.</div><figure class="wp-block-audio"><audio controls src="https://admin.rattle.com/audio/MargraveMeta.mp3"></audio></figure>

(T)(o)(o)  (C) (l) (o) (s) (e)

Decision

The Meta-Metamorphosis

<div class="line">No one makes him</div>
<div class="line">take his shoes off at security</div>
<div class="line">or asks to see his boarding pass.</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line">There are no bags to check</div>
<div class="line">because baggage is strictly for the living.</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line">No windows on the plane</div>
<div class="line">because there’s nothing to see.</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line">No seatbelts because</div>
<div class="line">there’s nothing to impact.</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line">The flight attendants</div>
<div class="line">attend to nothing.</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line">And though there are delays,</div>
<div class="line">there are never any cancellations.</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line">No one greets him at the gate</div>
<div class="line">or holds a sign with his name.</div>
<div class="line">No one is happy to see him.</div><figure class="wp-block-audio"><audio controls src="https://admin.rattle.com/audio/MargraveDeath.mp3"></audio></figure>

Cheer

Celebrity

When Death Travels

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<div class="line">They asked me for an adjective</div>
<div class="line">to describe myself as a teacher</div>
<div class="line">and I gave them a noun.</div>
<div> </div>
<div class="line">They asked me to roleplay</div>
<div class="line">a situation in which I told a student</div>
<div class="line">she would need to retake the class</div>
<div class="line">and I ended up giving</div>
<div class="line">her a second chance.</div>
<div> </div>
<div class="line">Then I asked if the water bottle</div>
<div class="line">provided for me</div>
<div class="line">had vodka in it.</div>
<div> </div>
<div class="line">Then I referred to the hiring committee</div>
<div class="line">which consisted entirely of women</div>
<div class="line">as “you guys.”</div><figure class="wp-block-audio"><audio controls src="https://admin.rattle.com/audio/MargraveRecap.mp3"></audio></figure>

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