Open Poetry #48 |
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Scenes from The Last Resort - or Jimi Hendrix & The Visionary Generation |
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soul drifter Senior Member
since 2004-09-08
Posts 711Colorado |
Scenes from The Last Resort - or Jimi Hendrix & The Visionary Generation Edward Hopper pulled the thread and the night spun misery into gold around my darkness door. I am standing on the point of embarkation and San Francisco buzzes like AM radio in my ears. Jim Morrison died of a lonesome heart sickness and took with him my baited breath, the last of Walt Whitman's lines spinning in harmony within his narcotic mind. 1971 bled to smokey tears and the shattered white Stratocaster spent it's bullets into the chest of Vietnam. And I fall, glide really, numbed by the napalm death poetry burning my eyelashes and filling up my nostrils. It's on to Berkley via a tattered train-shaped tear, to roll down the cheek to California, hopes in shambles in our hands, and Ginsburg shoved in our collective back pockets. This is the last resort, the tip of the blood-soaked iceburg, the rusty remnants of the transition of jazzy Fitzgerald to bluesy Steinbeck, and Jack and Neal glued the wreck back together the best they could, under the flapping colors on Iwo Jima. Semper Fi, fallen comrades and hey, Mr. Murrow, you're on in 3, 2, 1.... "...ignition! God Speed Apollo 11." "I will hang on the hook of your splendor" -Snow Patrol, 'Dark Roman Wine' |
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ice Member Elite
since 2003-05-17
Posts 3404Pennsylvania |
Wow! this is like talking blues, the subterranean homesick kind... love it. *"Look out kid It’s somethin’ you did God knows when But you’re doin’ it again" But it's all just a purple haze, and the only ones who know what's really goin on is the joker and the thief. Most excellent poetry S.D. *Bobbie D. From Subterranean Homesick Blues. [This message has been edited by ice (03-28-2012 05:57 AM).] |
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JamesMichael Member Empyrean
since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336Kapolei, Hawaii, USA |
A pleasure to read...James |
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