Our Man in Europe/now Belize/Dave Delacroix; "Lucrezia!"

 Our Manin Europe/now Belize/Dave Delacroix: "Lucrezia!"

...DO U JAMBO WHEN U Jambo? Do U Lucrezia when U smile? And do U "fandango" when U fandango-gypsy smile?

Do U WAIL when U. R. alive, do U. MARACA when U fandango, do U swirl your crimson dress, do U Maraca when U Tango?

(A gigolo, awaiting U in your hotel bed.)

DO U RAMBO like Rambo, drink/tear the - Corozal - town down, do U kiss & slay whoever, the ones who stare & frown.

Can U ever escape the life U have made, can U ever get Peace of Mind, do U ever Jambo when U Jambo, Lucrezia, that Borgia love of mine.

c.2026. Dave Delacroix.

Our Man in Europe/now Belize/Dave Delacroix: "A Circumnavigation of The Globe."

 Our Man in Europe/now Belize/Dave Delacroix: "A Circumnavigation of The Globe."

(dedicato: Songs by: Sandy Denny -R.I.P./Band/Fairport Convention (Come all U roving Minstrels) & The Allman Brothers (I was born a Ramblin Man).

"A Circumnavigation of The Globe."

...HAVE U EVER BEEN TO Tipperary/ it's actually NOT a long way to go/a 'la WW1 Song... if U live in Dublin. The Geraldine & Johns, such a happy throng till the "potato famine' (1820s-on) made CRUEL the emerald Isle & neighbor England's Industrial Revolution could not CARE FOR erstwhile!

 Have U ever been to ROME? U now live there. G.P.S. U live in Trastevere? MANOH! 2,000 years on, post-horse-chariots or Maseratis or a classic MOTO-GUZO Italian hot-rod to this day, Via-Capri, via any which way U wanna go, it'll get U there. (Don't need a Compass.) U will eventually "show up" despite rumors of "See Napoli & die!"

I never queue up & enter into the VATICAN in Rome with more than two Credit Cards, incidentally. (Yes, indeed, U might enquire?)

Did/could U venture into the "forbidden City"/SLASH a Peking-Emperors divine throat, now mute. SUNG OUT, a dynasty, a saga of WAR, the construction of the great Chinese Wall & imperial admirals, (1300s) sailing the Seven Seas, Arabia, Africa, NORTH AMERICA, nothing of significance homecoming to report.

It IS INDEED a question - a circumnavigation of the Globe - as to where to pivot a global Maps Compass and not so much to say, where have I been (Youthful homecomings, after traveling/partying/Museums/Art Galleries/Street Cafes/chasing after Gals, etc.) what the hell does it all mean!?

Interestingly enough, the World's historical explorers, many, out there died. Dr. Livingstone. Conquistadors. But so many others integrated & founded a new heaven and never - "What da frick? and happily never came back.

c.2026. Dave Delacroix.

Our Man in Europe/now hunkering down in BELIZE/Dave Delacroix: "Riffiffi-Mamma-Mia!'/THE EPSTEIN FILES./Modest Mouse!"!

 Our Man in Europe/now Belize/Super-ESPIONAGE-Dude/ Dave Delacroix: "RIFFIFI-Mamma-Mia!"/The EPSTEIN FILES? (Modest Mouse!).

(dedicato: Mon frere - in Gascony-France/homeland of D'Artagnan/3 Musketeers? -  le Marquis Jean de Bats & national French/Portuguese cerebrated artist Isabel Pessoa)

"RIFFIFI-MAMMA-MIA!"/The EPSTEIN FILES/Modest Mouse!

...A-MAH little bit IN DANGER of being recognized for BEING myself. God knows what OTHERS see when U can't see yourself...Your OWN "Private-Idaho" (B-52s), your OWN "Personal-Jesus" (Depeche-Mode), your OWN personal "fail-safe button" (Stanley Kubrick) or MIO driving a stolen Pontiac outta Malibu/ Santa-Monica/L.A.

 "The Dashboard melted but we still had the Radio!" (Modest Mouse). Who knows...just WHO U. R.., the Man in Da Moon (Andy Kaufman/R.E.M.) or some old lady who lives in a Dickensian beach-house Shoe? Maybe I need a good Lawyer? A Publicist from the William-Morris (L.A.) Talent Agency. Some C.I.A. Agent as anyone-mystified can - Scottish - "KEN" (knowledge) to understand I'm a tad confused.

 U.S.A./C.I.A./F.B.I. Secret Agents R supposed to be specifically trained to "understand" or beat the shit out of U?

 So I was busted. Crumpled fender. That murdered KID hitchhiker on Pacific Coast Highway, not me BRO, but I did rob the Malibu Cross-Creek Mkt bank. Guilty as charged. But PUR-LEEZE shred my name from your F.B. I's Washington EPSTEIN files? People like ME!? -It's "Riffifi!" (Mamma-Mia!). People like Me. Small Change. Riffifi-Mamma-Mia! Go chase your Washington D.C. BOSS or ya Mamma!!!

c. 2026. Dave Delacroix.

Our Man in Europe/now residing in BELIZE/Dave Delacroix: "It's not unusual...."

 Our Man in Europe/now Belize/Dave Delacroix: "It's not unusual..."

(Après Tom Jones song/1960s)

(dedicato: my 1990s Movie Star drinking buddies, Stephen Lee (R.I.P), Jan-Michael Vincent (R.I.P.) & William Forsythe, like me. a Survivor.)

"It's NOT Unusual..."

.... IT'S NOT UNUSUAL TO BE loved by anyone. It's not unusual TO BE -FRICKED-UP, menstruation problems or a DICK on a sleeping HOLLYWOOD-BUTCHER'S hook; And in Tomorrow's reflective stare OR glare U see no-one but the Soul U left behind, the one, perhaps U never had at all?

It's not unusual to BE absolutely wrong, to standing up, raise your issue in the throngs of the madding crowd? And/or sing the "just-right-WRONG" songs; a "faux-pas", a regret U take to your grave, a misgiving no-one but YOU - in the Economy-Size - get to be exposed...and then there's Fame?

It's not UNUSUAL (argument OVER "BAH" the shouting!) to be a kind of U? -A unique design AFFORDED just, actually DESIGNED FOR U. Come rain or shine it's yours by Gods design & no-one, NOBODY can take that away from...Are we lame, are we limping; next-in-line: Guess who? Soliloquies-abound. This one is for U.

c.2026. Dave Delacroix.

Our Man in Europe/now Belize/Dave Delacroix: "Whisky-A-JU-JU"!

 Our Man in Europe/now in Belize/Dave Delacroix: "Whisky-a-JU-JU"!

...DO U "JU-JU" in your MOJO, do U "JU-JU" late at night? Do U "JU-JU" in a pink "TU-TU" when no-one's in sight? Do U BOOGALOO in your "Nightie/slinky pajamas", do U set yourself alight? Do U "JU-JU" in your MOJO, does your night turn to light!

Do U "JU-JU" in your Mojo, just where has your lover gone? Do U MOJO in your "JU-JU" or wail an old song? Do U regret your tomorrows before they have come? Do U "JU-JU" your eternity full knowing your love's left & gone...

c.2026. Dave Delacroix.

Our Man in Europe/now Belize/Dave Delacroix: "Out of the Past."

 Out Man in Europe/now Belize/Dave Delacroix: "Out of the Past."

(Après the Bob Mitchum/Jane Greer/Kirk Douglas MOVIE of the same name.)

"Out of the Past."

...R. U. safe? Are U safe? Nobody is safe. Go get a mandrake root, pull it out, hear it scream. Never mind what Time is it. But more, what Time U GOT? TICK-TOCK, before tomorrow erasers your Soul; souvenirs/Real Estate, your BEST FRIENDS MEMORY as in: Go & catch a falling star? They too wonder where past years R, erected dwarf-like, a memorial (John Donne, Eng. Poet. 1500s) statue in St. Paul's cathedral. Lookin' kind-a silly. Only your OWN words will prevail like pivots of wisdom - No man is an island - to hollow the marrow of future generations bones.

Do U go or stay, involve or REVOLVE within the sinew of your purpose. It's not a choice but it's the/your only voice to transgress mortality if that has any value. As wise men, fools, thieves' debate... can anything rise above the Coin of fame/recognition, a Tomorrows yesterday? All HAIL (Ave!) Once a Lady's glance that even now haunts U to eternity. A specter. Night People. A Film-Noir. Gaberdine-Fedora. A man with a plan. Out of the Past. But a story which invariably - "everyone's right that what I always say" - goes nowhere. Do U sulk, put $10 on a racehorse or just go out & dance?

c.2026. Dave Delacroix.

Our Man in Europe/now residing in Belize/Dave Delacroix: TIME-TRAVEL THEME; No.6: "They DIED with their MULLETS on!"

 Our Man in Europe/now Belize/Dave Delacroix: TIME-TRAVEL No. 6: "The DIED with their MULLETS-on!"

(dedicato: Ann-Marie & Aaron Yaccobucci. Mostly Ann-Marie!))

(...Continuing my MISFIT TIME-TRAVEL theme Posts:)

"They DIED with their MULLETS on."

...GEORGE-ARMSTRONG CUSTER, famed USA-WILD WEST GENERAL who distinguished himself in the American - Union side - American Civil War; probably considered an "up-start" by the Institutionalize-Political-Military "JOINT-CHIEFS"/they, to this day have adjoint Suites in the Pentagon, sub-let-secret little spaces as in Stanley Kubrick's movie scene-the WAR ROOM/adjacent cubbyholes for the "HIGH COMMAND's/Chief of Staff's "pieces of fluff " TO THIS DAY' "MERRY XMAS & HOW I LEARNT TO LOVE that bomb-thingy?

 -And getting your 3-STAR (General/Rank as opposed to MOTEL-6)) TAX PAYER-SUBSIDIZED dick sucked, privately is a Medal of Honor of sorts/outta uniform of course whether in the KREMLIN, the PENTAGON, No.10 Downing St., The Elysée Palace-France, the VATICAN or the IMPERIAL PALACE in Beijing; they're ALL going AT IT!

...As in, like ANOTHER Military UPSTART, Colonel DOOLITTLE/WW2, "Go Bomb the Emperor Of JAPAN/Don't come back!"  they parked him (CUSTER) out to Manhattan-Kansas State, these days a college town, a.k.a. "AGGIE-V ILLE!" 

These days, a big University hub. Students in Aggieville incidentally R big on "College Basketball" especially when KANSAS STATE meet KANSAS-whoever else. I forget. I played a couple of bar-concerts there. (Manhattan-Kansas.) COOL FOLKS!!! Yet, Kansas State, a State like Arkansas where it's ILLEGAL to Hitch-hike?... Hiking OUT was a close-run thing. (SINGING: "Bury my heart-in Canoga Park!" (L.A.)

  Anyhow, back to the MULLET-thingy, George Armstrong CUSTER "sans Chapeaux" (WITHOUT cavalryman fedora/Stetson hat-whoosits) had possibly the earliest known photo-gig, "FIRSTIE/SELFIE" for having his mugshot/Foto/almost an "Antique Roadshow T.V. gig, silver-gilded B/W Rembrandt in sterile mood" who paraded his (unique hair style), THE MULLET/cut short to-sides/thin on top/long over-neck out back/let your hair-rug - if ya got it! - CAVALIER!...

 ...A Macho "plume de tete" which a century later became fashionable within the ranks of Construction workers (to distinguish/"a 'Un petite le Tour-Eiffel above the Paris skyline) but was NEVER adopted/caught-ON or became "SWINGING" a 'la "HEY DUDE!!!"  with Bankers, Accountants, LAWYERS - YET SOME DID gravitate to ponytails - mini tail braids, RASTA DREADS or an AC/DC "Man-bun"; one or 2 in NANTES, pronounced "Nancy" but only, I guess, the Legal Shysters, the ones who had nothing to lose, A.K.A. Money lenders. Your best friends? No worries. Sometimes SHAME, though awkward gets a bad name.

And as for POLITICIANS who of course - with beady eyes - a-feared of being perceived as TOO Bohemian/Avante-Garde by their "Clochemerle" provincial constituents or feeling a tight squeeze on their Political-foreskins/if they had survived politically correct circumcision...So, the Mullet- is off limits. ALAS! And pity the poor Mullet: MULLET PEOPLES LIVES MATTER!

When the great North American Native Indian Nations/Lakota's over-ran Custer's 7th. Cavalry at the "Battle of the Little Bighorn" (such names they have), when it came to "scalping" the vanquished (a custom introduced by European invaders) they probably felt short-changed that the enemy was a little light on the "Poodle-head", at that time, the current fashion in gay Paree! As for T-T (My Time Travel situ.) I waved my International PRESS CARD at Indian Chief Sitting Bull before he could strike me down. (Every T-T traveler carries one). 

He couldn't make "head nor tails" over my NIKON camera but regarded me as some kind of Holyman/a publicist to plead his nation's enforced plight & righteous defense & indignation. (Phew!) So along with a few wounded I got to walk away unscathed. There followed a week's rickety-fragile wagon train back to Manhattan-Kansas. At some lull on this sad retreat, I got to thinking maybe the Aggieville kids R putting on a B-B game, & then immediately felt ashamed.

I never got back to Manhattan-K. The T-T (Time Travel) powers that be extracted me & posted me to...

c.2026. Dave Delacroix.