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# Me and Bobby Mueller
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/me-and-bobby-mueller-branden-koch/
- Published: 2018-12-15T15:00:36.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:09:15.000Z
- Description: Turn the screw, Bob, align our spine.
- Author: Branden Koch
- Tags: Art, Drawing, Weekend, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-18 14:37 (2018)

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Branden Koch, “Romantic Sunset” (2018), ink on paper, 10.5 x 13 inches (image courtesy the artist)

Hush, baby, baby, baby, hush, no no no no don’t you cry!  
Bob, turn the screw, align our spine  
Spare us creaturesque pain.  
Now derail this high-speed train!  
Learn from this fair example – You  
Whom savage sports delight  
Bobby baby, Cruelty disgusts the view  
While pity charms the sight.  
Don’t leave us with nothing  
We’re no children of Martian Summertimes  
Nor Manifest Destinies.