First, let me put to rest the rumor that T. Texas Twiddle plays the fiddle. I’m pretty sure he’s a guitar kinda guy (Gibson flat top a la Johnny Cash when acoustic, and certainly a Fender Tele if he happened to wire up for some righteous honky tonkin’), but then I’d bet large that mostly what he plays is the jukebox.
Anyway, T. Tex, the faux hero of these faux folksy pieces, emerged from a failed attempt to develop a poem by playing from T. Texas Tyler’s 1948 Country hit, “The Deck of Cards,” that would have crossed homage with burlesque, but turned out to be a losing hand at the poker table called poetry. I think T. could talk classroom if he hadta, but I decided to let him have his say his way.
Most of the poems in this free, digital chapbook, first appeared in The Tao of Twang (2014). These new versions rework the scoring of the poems (or as the lit folks would say, the line breaks) to better (I hope) convey pace and inflection, which is to say how they might be spoken and heard.
If you’d like see these poems as genuine writing, this link will open the set for you to read on screen or download the PDF from Neo-Mimeo Editions, a project of Nualláin House, (and a big non-faux thank you to Pat Nolan for the Neo-Mimeo project and for including these poems in it):
https://nuallainhousepublishers.com/2025/09/13/triple-t-redux/
If you’d like to hear these poems, this link will open a page where you can give them a listen:
https://tahunt.com/triple-t-the-audio/