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Being There
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Being There |
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JerryPat Senior Member
since 2010-10-30
Posts 1991Louisiana/America 
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I squirted red wine From a goatskin flask In a besotted Greek salute to Bacchus, god of wine and revelry. But I wasn’t there. I wore fine linen garments, powder in my hair, A manly rite of passage In perverted old Europe And stepped gracefully to the Minuet with Lucrezia Borgia. But I wasn’t there. I jitterbugged in the Speakeasy With the Flappers of Chicago, Kicking high and lovin’ hard On bathtub gin, free expression And Marxists philosophy. But I wasn’t there. I dug the scene at The Duplex, Kerouac’s favorite watering hole With Ginzberg spewing righteous Beatnik intellect there in Greenwich Village. But I wasn’t there. I draped love beads Round my neck, Standing among the faithful Digging Janis in San Francisco with Big Brother and the Holding Company. But I wasn’t there. But I’ll be there in the flesh, Decked out in my costume of choice At the World’s First United Mardi Gras Celebration in the Mojave Desert, Puking on Gila Monsters and Chasing Roadrunners. http://swampwriter.blogspot.com/ |
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Lori Grosser Rhoden Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202Fair to middlin' of nowhere |
Sounds like too much fun! Enjoyed! Lori |
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JerryPat Senior Member
since 2010-10-30
Posts 1991Louisiana/America |
Thanks, Lori. I'm getting ready for the First United Mardi Gras Celebration in the Mojave Desert as we speak. |
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s1nfully_1nn0c3nt Senior Member
since 2003-10-26
Posts 1105Watertown, NY |
Ah, Indeed, it sounds fun and exciting  Enjoyed.-Trina. |
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JerryPat Senior Member
since 2010-10-30
Posts 1991Louisiana/America |
Trina, there's room for all in the Mojave, don your partying apparel and join us. Thanks for being here. |
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Earl Brinkman Senior Member
since 2010-03-03
Posts 1183Osaka, Japan |
This was a joy to read. I was glad that I was there. |
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JerryPat Senior Member
since 2010-10-30
Posts 1991Louisiana/America |
Hah! Actually I was there in S.F. with Janis, or rather a cow pasture she was putting on a concert, but I chose not to reveal that for the consistency of the poem. thanks, Earl. |
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Earl Brinkman Senior Member
since 2010-03-03
Posts 1183Osaka, Japan |
Thats okay. I am guilty of the same thing at times. When posting poems it is not that I am a liar its just that I stretch the truth to make things more dramatic. In one of my poems `Elvis, Mom and Me`, things didn`t quite happen the way that I had written them. I took a bunch of nights and created a composite evening. I needed a kicker to finish the poem so I created a fictional ending to tie the piece together. --- Well...maybe I do lie at times. I don`t have a dog or drive a motorcycle as I do in `For Those Who Take Their Own Road`. |
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tattooedsweetheart07 Member
since 2010-07-11
Posts 86Pa |
Sounds wonderful.... I'd love to be there to see it... I do ren reactments and I truly love every minute of being someone else and dressing up... it's such a wonderful feeling... |
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JerryPat Senior Member
since 2010-10-30
Posts 1991Louisiana/America |
Hah! Yep, I actually try to make the poem I write about myself true as possible, but piece like "Being There" I tried to bring off a spoof kinda mood, therefore the little falsehood I told would be permissible. But I have to say, Earl, I would never think about lying about the King. Haha! <><><><> I hear ya, tattooedsweetheart07. It's a lot of fun to "be" someone else. I've had my day at Mardi Gras in New Orleans . . . Some find times have been had back in the day. Thank you for dropping by. |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Jerry...some fine places to be...The Majave for me was spring time and the wildflowers and me just a little thing. |
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JerryPat Senior Member
since 2010-10-30
Posts 1991Louisiana/America |
Your recollections of the Mojave is one I wouldn't have thought of, Martie. Through the eyes of a little girl. |
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flash Member
since 2010-11-28
Posts 213miami beach, florida |
good one, Jerry..so very good..reminds me so much of one of my all-time favorite Bukowski poems "Drawing Of A Band Concert On A Matchbox": “life on paper is so much more/pleasurable / there are no bombs or flies or/landlords or starving/cats . .Then the poet imagines himself magically transported into the drawing itself, as he tries to score with the “lady in yellow with the fan". But reality, as always, rears its ugly head: “the balloon pops and I walk across the kitchen/on a rainy day in February/to check on eggs and bread and/wine and sanity / to check on glue / to paste nice pictures/ on these walls" Bukowski was once asked "What is fiction?" His reply: "Fiction is an improvement on life" I'll second that! And your poem took me back to my SF hippie days--standing on street corners--begging for nickles and dimes--but it was an attempt--however short-lived--to bring peace & love to all. Today is so different: Hippie love children walking the mall in gucci sandals! Ha! great poem, Al |
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JerryPat Senior Member
since 2010-10-30
Posts 1991Louisiana/America |
Funny you bringing up Bukowski, I like some of his stuff. He could also get pretty silly sometimes also. I was out in California for much of the sixties and early seventies, but I wasn't one of the hippies, my life was pretty much destroyed in those days. I did hang around them for the girls thought. Yep. I was into psychedelic music and all that went with it though. |
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Spiros Zafiris Senior Member
since 2002-10-20
Posts 982Canada |
..nice one, Jerry..Mojave, indeed; a very romantic place..>>spiros |
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JerryPat Senior Member
since 2010-10-30
Posts 1991Louisiana/America |
Thanks, Spiros, for your thoughts. |
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