June 2023
Dan Hubbs
hubbsdan3@gmail.com
Bio Note: I am a librarian and an old-time style banjo player. I have performed at Caffe Lena, Skidmore College (Solomon Northup Day), Great Camp Sagamore, and at libraries and schools in Saratoga Springs and the Adirondacks. I have published writing at Verse Virtual, Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood and HVWG. I received a grant in 2021 to publish a book of poems based, in part, on my time working as a building super in Manhattan - Downtown Super Tells All.

Some say the banjo player

Some say the banjo player
Is actually quite sad
And that the syncopated 
Melody notes are a cover
For various shortcomings
And insecurities.
Others believe librarians,
He, She or They,
Are “deformed” or have
Otherwise turned away
From life as normal people
Choose to live it.
Which brings me to
The idea of the lost hiker,
The aging alcoholic, 
The despondent adulterer,
The person who saves
Up to spend money
On a boat ride
To look at whales.

We need to talk.
©2023 Dan Hubbs
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