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Monday, January 28, 2019

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix....Arrested Smile.


Our Man in Europe, dave Delacroix....Arrested Smile.


…..I-m rolling this Cigarette
for U,
5.00 a.m.
Bloody Brahms on the Radio
a Gut-kick
insidious twilight
to separate
our genitalia.

….I-m pouring this Chardonnay
over my chest
to confound Dignity
as your eyes glisten,
taking my Cigarette, to inhale
then EX
shattering my composure.

….


c2019,davedelacroix,vicola la marca,sciacca-sicily.

Sunday, January 27, 2019

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix...ANDY KAUFMAN, etc.



Our Man in Europe, dave Delacroix....Andy Kaufman, Tony Clifton and Mio.



AMAH SINGING thru a Straw
jest singin thru a Staw, a STAW!
A happiest FEELING
who could WANT for more
not a cloud in the ROOM
where I sit, drunk
in mah room
except WHEN
…..I go on a Talk Show.

AMAH SINGING thru mu TOOTH
bewailin mah YOUTH
out THERE on Long Island
NEW TORK CITY
Brrrrrr!
I dance on the beach,
and sing thru my KNEES,
fame and fortune,
…..U know WHAT to do.

I-m ANDY and Cliff,
I-m No-one to STIFF,
C-mon, meet my MA and PA,
maybe some DAY,
maybe some SWEET day,
UMBILICAL,
U can kiss me ...if U like!


c2019,davedelacroix,ourmanin Europe.

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix...SINGING thru a Straw.

Our Man in Europe, dave Delacroix...SINGING thru a Straw...

GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN, no money coming IN, the Congress, Senate, NO-tied Gov. Pay-check. No Equalization, no, IN-house Cocktail Bar, no trailer house OUTSIDE Wash-D.C., maybe close to Manhattan-Kansas, AGGI-VILLE, Manhattan Main St. U can land a 747 there. Wide enough. 15 mph. Either-way. There-s a Music shop there. Cool Dude will connect U with the VOX Amplifier-Guitar Maestro, lives just out of town. U can JAM....Big Time....with these Music Kansas Royalty. Lord KNOWS, I had that honour! Alas, right NOW, crazy RnR lifestyle, missin mah KIN and Singin thru a Straw!....Salute WESLEY, Liberty and WAYNE, Kansas-s finest!!!

c2019,davedelacroix,sciacca-sicily.

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix....Mark Twain and Dave Delacroix.


Our Man in Europe, dave Delacroix....Mark Twain and Dave Delacroix....


Recent reports of OUR DEATHS are marginally exaggerated. Mark is taking a NAP and I am nursing a Fat lip, a result of publicly pontificating!


c2019,dave Delacroix, Sciacca-sicily.

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix....63 years old...with a broken jaw, Cafe Vittorio-E., Sciacca-Sicily!

Our Man in Europe, dave Delacroix....63 years old...with a broken jaw, Vittorio-E., Sciacca-Sicily!

YO! I went down to BAR-Café
Vittorio-eMANUElle
Fratello Calogero…
Yo! Cruisin, Ragazzi,
blood-spatta-on my CHIN.

Was it an UPPER-CUT
Was it a DIVA-DIVE
WAS it an ENVIOUS JIVE
Was it a Boog-a-loo
in a TOWN.....

YO! I went down to the Vittorio-Emanuale,
a corso V.E.
DIDN-T EXPECT physical VIOLENCE,
just VINO e dolci Vitae,
NO WORRIES,
Guitar in my head,
pay my Bills
then go home to bed!

YO!!! When I....

Buddies in AMERICA...U must think I-m getting Soft.. Relax Gals, relax Lads. Been treatin SOME of these Boys with Kid Gloves. Cool People here too, but am MOVING to the UK in May. More INFO to come.



c2019.davedelacroix.


Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix.... NEW MOUTH!!!



Our Man in Europe, dave Delacroix.... NEW MOUTH, Yo!


New Mouth, New YO! Sometimes ya gotta go Dat w|Ay
no wIFI FOR jESUS, cold Canary.. No Internet for the Apostle's, NUNS, Monks awaiting in line. AAA-bishops, Vaticano-battery, Cardinale-fashionishas, SISTAS of Mercy, LATTER-Day Saints, Administrators, SQUIRRELS, Bunnie-Rabbits, Ad Infinitum, ME...with a busted lower-lip for pissin off the Devout!....Love dem Christians!...Feel, 2.43. a.m., like I just got outta the BOXING RING of some Clone-Culture-doobie-doo, this SIDE of Evangelist-mega-Finance!

Jeeze! my lower lip is blood, drip, drip, drip. Maybe DOMANI, mi Faccia, a portrait of DESPAIR. Somehow, somewhere, some FRICK socked me in the JAW....blood, drip, drip drip, assassinate il drunken Poet, po quoi!!!

NO WifiFi for Jesus, the MESSAGE-STYMIED by an Afro-American KID on a 1950-s T.V. Show, OUR GANG, or rain-pipe polluted, some regular kids, invented-canzone, some with-mis-understood, in N uMBILIical, beyond your CAMERA yet waves, like your first Hollywood Kiss.

NO Wifi.
No Satelitte.
No Inner Kiss.
Maybe NO Nobility.
Just a Skid Row of AMOUR
where-ever.

NO WiFi for Jesus, NO! -THE END. Poor bastard. No Grapes of WRATH by Man-s Pen alone. It-s ENOUGH TO PISS OFF THE POPE, no Dustbowl evidence, refugee-memories...WHO WAILS, U R NOT ALONE....I want my Innocence back....Dove mi Rock N Roll, dove mi Veccho Cadillac!!!


c2018,OURMANINEUROPE,dave Delacroix, lord borgo,vicomte di piacencza

Friday, January 25, 2019

Our man in Europe, dave delacroix....Religious Dissolution.


Our Man in Europe, dave Delacroix....Religious Dissolution.


When Religion-s  DISSOLUTION comes and RELIGION gets rightfully debunked as Hokus-Pokus…. Catholic, Jewish, Muslim, Protestant, Buddhist, Latter-Days-Saints, whatever, hopefully, SIMULTANEOUSLY....Bunch of Out of Work Fairies!...WHO gets the REAL ESTATE, the Artwork, Paintings, Colossal Statues, the DIVINE RIGHT to the INNER SANCTUM, the HOLY of HOLIEST Offshore Tax Shelter Accounts, the banks Passwords, the original diagram of the SECRET HANDSHAKE, the SCROLLS,  or ownership of RECORDINGS of the LAST IMAM-s Utterances, his SWISS BANK COMBINATION...just WHAT are WE THE PEOPLE to do with all this COLLECTIVE WEALTH!!!
The reason I ask is...well, I-m thinking of becoming a C.P.A. Mom and Pops put me through College and they ALWAYS said, YO DAVE....Think BIG! THINK AHEAD!!!
Anyhow. JUST a THOUGHT. Y-All let me know!...No need to make an appointment. If the LOAD gets too heavy I-ll take on some Staff. Worse case scenario...I-ll reach out to Jesus!



c2019,January. davedelacroix. Non certified Accountant of No fixed Address.

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix.....No foreskin in Hollywood.



Our Man in Europe, dave Delacroix....No foreskin in Hollywood.

*dedicato. Goeff Gillette.


NO FORESKIN in HOLLYWOOD
what the Banjo Kids said
when the BLACK DAHLIA
in Technicolour
was ..Detective splayed,
CONFIDENTIALIA

Cops bustin Italians, Jews,
Pollacks, suspects LIMEYS
with CARNIVOROUS carving skills,
after-all, the Victim-s TORSO,
2 for 1.

NO CIRCUMCISE in CHICAGO
at the WORLD-S GREAT FAIR
at the price of several girls
smothered INSIDE
a BANKERS Money Safe,

Cops finding, later
their KICKIN SHOES
and EVEN H.C. HANDY
can-t reach to THEIR Blues...

or in the Nazi death Camps,
the OVENS,
head or feet, first, a courtesy,
WHO
if I cried out!!!....but a Human echo,
then...not at All...

A SOUND...of emptiness, a vacuum....
within which we lanquish in communion-despair.


c2019.davedelacroix. Sciacca-sicily.

Our Dave in Europe, dave delacroix....DEATH in Domestica, Pompeii, AD 79



Our Man in Europe, dave Delacroix....Death in Domestica, Pompeii, AD 79.


SOME Gig
Vesuvius-Pompeii
 a SMOKE
no PLAYERS
no kiss
no ever-more
like fated.

No cigarette
no STASH
no Papers-UN FOUND
inert-lunghi,
a detective Storia

BUSTED
like Vesuvius,
Pompeii,
domestic-life
the spouses HEAD
in the petrified
tumble dryer
his torso
on a long-vanished
washing-line.

in the Cucina
Chemi-residue
of a Scotch and Soda
neery in sight
after MILLENNIUM
of Sorry, sorry, sorry!
uncovered in TUFA
preservation
of  a dagger-crime!

Ave! Ave! Ave!
Victims of TERRA.....
e pre-domestica.
in Life as in Death
beholden to OUR History
as U strain to hear
our Whisper
in vita-follia-continuem

AVE!!!
A Crimi-crematorium
yet Justice
hollowed from the TUFA
to tell a ghostly tale...


c2019,davedelacroix.

Tuesday, January 22, 2019

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix....He Died with his Password.


Our Man in Europe, dave Delacroix.... He Died with his Password.

*dedicato. Marco Blo.


NOBODY knew bout da MILLIONS
nobody knew bout his tailored shoes
nobody KNEW
Credit Cards, Miss Fi-Fi
nobody KNEW his BLUES

Nobody SAID
NO-WAY!
When he cut his VEINS
that way
in Silicon VAL
by SAN FRAN
everybody said,
YO!!!

Nobody KNEW bout the Health Farm
on Expenses,
never went TO
and Nobody guessed
those trips to WEST Hollywood
something Brain-Counters
don-t DO

Nobody GOT IT
but he sure SHOT IT
like KINGS or GAMERS DO
some abstract
razzmatrazz
got lost in the Jazz
just like Me and U.


BIGGEST problem for the ESTATE Lawyers....WHAT was his frickin PASSWORD!!!!



c2019, davedelacroix, Barney-s Beaneri, West Pico, Hollywood, Cal. Usa.

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix.... Sweet Elenore.


Our Man in Europe, dave Delacroix.... Sweet Elenore.


MY KNICKERS ARE WET this side of the Moon-lite, my gravity-s UP to U... Can U light me a Cigarette, pass me that Glenfiddich thingy and I-ll compose a SLANGE for U.

Did I EVER tell U... U reminded me of a GRUFF-VIKING, long-blazon red hair, WIELDING a Sword, the first night I saw U pissin off ALL
and everyone and throwin yours UNDIES at the bar-room boors!

Aye my Love. Eternal, some sweet Elenore... as my Dreams come on home tonight!

Your KNICKERS like MINE are gone with the Wind, a Sailor-s Shanty, a Soldier-s Hymn, and as for our long-gone-VIRGINITY, we-ll sing  gone, gone, GONE!...for Evermore. We-ll sing and we-ll dance the DEVIL to death,

aye my Love, my sweet Elenore, aye my love, my sweet Elenore.



c2019,davedelacroix,sciacca-sicily, BAR ROMA.

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix...FEDERICO and NINO!


Our Man in Europe, dave Delacroix....Federico Fellini and Nino  Rota..


Federeico Fellini and Nino Rota....at the Piano….

Fed. SHADDUP!!!
Nino! SHADDUP!!!
Fed. Shaddup!!!
Nino. SHADDUP!
Fed .pREGGO.


c2019,daVEDELACROIX,.....

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix....THE MIND READER, Emeric Pressberger.


Our Man in Europe, dave Delacroix, The Mind Reader...Emeric Pressberger.


The MIND READER this side of Conscious Sunrise, YAPPO-says! Umbilicals, WE got Donkey-s to KINGDOMCOME, a Story!
A Canterbury Tale.
I know where I-m Going.
The Black Narcissus.
Colonel Blimp.
One of our Aircraft is Missing.
The RED SHOES
A matter of Life and Death.

HOW, within my Socio-tox//six compound, a NEW DARE
that weaves a Tales to Un-derline...and gives what winde
to an honest minde…


c2019,davedelacroix,ourmanineurope

Saturday, January 19, 2019

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix....Mulligatawny Babee



Our Man in Europe, dave Delacroix....Mulligatawnee Babee.


I CAN-T remember
can U
Too Picante
so were U
in Paris or Roma,
wotch-a think
there-s U

...a doobie-doo.

Easy, EASY-Yowsa
on the spices
Haberneroes
on the soles
of Maigret-s shoes,
CRIMINALE
U-betcha,
please arrest me.

Is it Tomorrow
yesterday
my palates ACHING
so U say
I cAN-T remember
Mulligatawny,
without Fire.

...a Tra-la-la.

I traveled North
South to le Cote D-azure
got fleeced in Casinos
hitch-hiked home
Caught a RIDE,
Tour de France!
Mulligatawny!


c2019.davedelacroix. Bar Santangelo, Sciacca-Sicily.

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix...No Spandex for Miss Wandex.


Our Man in Europe, dave Delacroix.... NO Spandex for Miss Wandex.


...No Spandex for Miss WANDEX She-s down outside my balcony window... howling at the moon. Put a pillow over my EARS but then the alley cats, sensing a dynamic, join IN to carouse! Sometimes U wish for RAIN to flood down Sciacca-Sicily-s mountain-town streets and alley-ways.. GIVE the town a new broom!....Wishful thinking. Not happening....And Miss Spendex...Scusi mio...Miss WANDEX.....Flailing Gal down below on the Vicola la Marca... WRINGING my  poor Sap-s neighbours door bell, 4.a.m., some Gig that went South. Bing-BBong!!!...Yet Eternal...

WHO, if I cried out, amongst the Order of the Angels, would HEAR ME....Poem by Heine, somebody... German.

Is THIS the DEAL! In our ANGST we have to CONSORT with the UBER-Mencsh! EINSATZ-GRUPPEN ethnic cleansing. Allah-Akbah. Should I burn these MUSLIMS, IMANS, throw in a few Jesuit Lawyers! Goose-step into Deutsche-Bank or pick up some accrued investment in Banco-SWISS. YO SWISS FUCKERS! Show me the BOOKS!....LOL. Just shoot the Alpine bastards. Do paperwork later.
As for mis WANDEX. Modern Gal!
Grazie Dio. A G CHORD on an acoustic Guitar. YO! Anyone got a Mandolin!

 Didn-t feel like...on the spot...sharing. Miss Spandex-s alley-soliloquy, no business of mine. Rich enough to OWN a second pillow Lord KNOWS I got One! Put it on top of my head. Went to sleep, no regrets and dreamt of vineyards, maybe in France. Her cries and despair to her Lover. Somebody called the LOCALS. She was driven away in the Drunk Tractor. I later found out her Dude was away in Sardinia, managing some MEGA-EURO-DISCO thingy. When he came back, ya-know, door step encounters, I didn-t have the Heart to RAM A MACHETTE thru his worthless Heart.


c2019,davedelacroix. Bar Santangelo, Siciacca-Sicily.


Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix..The Last D.J.

Our Man in Europe, dave Delacroix.... The Last D.J.

ATTITUDE, semi-rich BRAMHA out of Forest Hills, west of Manhattan, New York City, Israeli Occupied Territory...low end rock n roll Jewish folks... someone-s gonna get killed, somebody-s gonna make BUCKS....wheelin the Rappa-Famous-sucker...White Boy...into a QUEENS Saturday night Hospital-Casualty...Yo Momma!
Olive Oil, Patta bread, OUZO aint gonna keep this IDIOT D.J. Punk alive. WRONG Borough, wrong FACE, wrong Dynastic in THIS....Our Time...an Evolutionary-Urban-boogy-woogie.
Paparazzo es arrive. Clamour! Can we get a Quote!
My name is Achilles. Please! Please! Try my Anchovies....
ot the Re-mote!Official statement.... Death by Microphone in Anal Cavity. The Microphone has a Long-Life battery.
CORONER reporting.... Is THAT why his corpse is still gyrating..
Passing-visiting District Attorney... Has anyone got the Remote!


c2019,dave Delacroix, Sciacca-sicily.

Friday, January 18, 2019

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix.... SOoooo Long at THE FAIR..CHAPLIN-sketch.


Our Man in Europe, davee Delacroix....SO long at the fair...CHAPLIN-Sketch.

SO long at THE FAIR my broken Spectacles... SO long at the Fair, my Inconsistancy. SO long....GADZOOKS!.....my Unworthiness. Do U know the MOST direct route to California. It-s IN the USA! Hitch-hike all cross the USA, hop the train at Glendale and ride the last 50 miles into L.A. UNION....nuttin Union bout L.A.... Station.
SO long, a Song, somebody read IT TO ME. so long, A PICTORIAL OF America=SS GREAT oREGON TRAIL so LONG, HOW TO make Los Angeles a VIABLE CITY, didn-t come out in Cut Tape Flickrs, came out in a CHAPLIN song....TRIP and SLAP!!!!

c2019,dave Delacroix, Murphys, Sciacca-Sicily.

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix....Segrito me Casa-Siciliano.



Our Man in Europe, dave Delacroix.... Segreto me Casa-Siciliano.

1...

Do U wanna Groove!
Do U wanna Groove!
Do U wanna feel SMOOTH!
DO U wanna make a MOVE!

YO! I was feelin pretty, pretty
she did a CART-wheel
around my WHEELCHAIR

Old Gal,
could-a bin somebodies Bela
...as OLD a Me
arrived with a  Jug, Vino-a casa!

2...

Nobody KNOWS
just WHATS goin on.
Nobody Knows
his finger
from his thumb
nobody knows
Wednesday TRUE
Nobody, it maybe U.

Nobody SUSPECTS
Palermo
nobody EXPECTS
Catania
and NOBODY CARES
Tax-exempt

Nobody WONDERS
Molti-Educated
ETNA volcano SIMMERS
characterically,
a mezzo-giorno…

Nobody KNOWS
just what-s going ON
a Famiglia, a delicate Clan,
ANY which way
the Bambini
SHINE....in my eyes.

3......

….I HAVE something more to write. Do not feel disappointed. Right NOW my small Summer Apartment is CHILLIN even though I-m sitting on top of the GAS-heater with a full reassurance alcohol BAR in my Pad, my creative mind wonders. Constant re-collective PUSHKIN tragenti dazzle sobriety...figure THAT one out... Memories-Haunt, bridges burnt, ITEMS intrinsic,  1,000 faces, maybe more, NAMES.. Thee-s NO God dam pity here...just confusion. A Spell-check..WHO cares!

Garlic.....1 Euro.
Mushrooms. 3 Euroes.
Onions...1.oo euro.
Brie. 4.00.
Tomorrow and Tomorrow. The Super-Mercato! DO U wanna GROOVE!!!

4...

I caught your cold marrow in the Sun
within your smile
underneath your joy
that told me tales
of sadness and despair,
you Inheritance.

I drank your Elysium
I drank your Guile
and made it
my Poetry
within
until a time, came
when I looked U in the eye.


c.2019, davedelacroix,sciacca-sicily.

























Our Man in Europe, dave elacroix....Saint Patrick-s Day!


Our Man in Europe, dave Delacroix..... St. Patrick-s Day.


IT don-t matter to Me. It don-t matter Pleasant Valley or Springfield, Missouri, some Family place which U left behind....IT don-t matter to Me, BIG SKY Montana on a breeze! IT don-t matter WISCONSIN by the Lakes, outside of Chicago, St. Patricks day!
IT don-t matter to Me. It don-t matter San Francisco BAY, maybe U will RE-invent yourself some day. A Pea Coat. A Sailor-s Cap. Hide your flat Tits. A Gallic Sea-Shanty for all the Souls. To Harpoon the Whale-concept that was never meant to BE-Harpooned and IN ending...be complete, as the Whale goes swimming.
Give Me a nod, if I have to Dress for this Occasion! Moms and Pops in their finery. Sisters butter-flyin as BEAUS!!!...  A St. Patrick-s Gay-happy- day. Hop-Scotch! KID STUFF. And all the Wonder of not being Old unfolds...


c2019,,dave Delacroix. Sciacca-Sicily.

Tuesday, January 15, 2019

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix.....Long John Silver and Health Insurance!


Our Man in Europe, dave Delacroix.....Long John Silver and Health Insurance!


Weee-ll mah teeth....TAKE A GOOD LUCK!...are, as we be saying, have SEEN better days! Now what be your calling yourself, Health-Inspector! We-ll I can see RIGHT OUT U be as smart as Paint and a lively stride with Scribe and Paper, u can lay to that! Saw it right off! One of me OWN. Aye! No barnacles on your keel. Employ Records! Weee-ll AVAST, we Seadogs don-t akin to too many Apples in Ship-s barrel ceptin when Cabin-Boy gets too wayfaring. Israel Hands and the OTHER shipboards ATE the last one. Gave clothes to Seaman-s Mission in Bristol. Ast to me MISSING LEG
a Ducat or 2, ya Ken, for a new Crutch and some Peanuts, AVAST!!!...for Capt Flint who quarks me shoulder KNOWIN left from right! PEICES OF EIGHT! PEICES OF EIGHT!!!

c2019,davedelacroix,sciacca-sicily.

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix....SELFIE GIRL


Our Man in Europe, dave Delacroix....Selfie-Girl


Selfie Girl
Selfie World
Selfie JOY
Selfie
but not with me.

Selfie Girl
Smiles and Joy
All the World
her Toy
Selfie,
but not with Me.

Tra-la-la...


c2019, davedelacroix,sciacca-sicily. CANZONE!!!!

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix....Feeling Groovy.



Our Man in Europe, dave Delacroix.... Feeling Groovy.


OMG! Must be getting OLD just thinkin - Groovy UP to my NECK in Bills with at least TWO belladonna's who wanna SHOOT to KILL.
Can I Call-collect, my Cell-thingy in Hock, I-m ROAD-KILL.
Guess I must be getting Old, yet feelin Groovy!

Now ONCE when I was a GREEN lad...on Fern Hill, SPLENDOUR
in-da-Rushes, a B-W Film Noir, a Francois Truffaut kiss
and SEVERAL devil Women, entwined to RECIPE
my Heart, yet to be....in B-W.... UN-broken...FUNNY
how that works out!

Tra-la-la...

...But I MUST be getting OLD, for ALL my sins are now in VOGUE,
like a RETRO Fashion Magazine
somehow Groovy, a musically throw-away.
YO! Pantaloni don-t fit, my Vecchio Hipster JIVE,
my heroes ARE all dead but OMG my longtime GAL,
when WE get together, she says, I-m still Groovy.

YO! Groovy in the Morning. U Groovy in the night....

c2019,davedelacroix,sciacca-sicily.

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix....Peace and War.



Our Man in Europe, dave Delacroix....Peace and War.
A SONG...A Song, nothing more.


Peace N War.

….Maybe she-ll call U
wicked WAIL
some INtero
some digestive
some bail
on a Tuesday.

Some RAGAZZO Moon
Kids yelping
come too soon
Harry-s Bar!
Parigi or Venice!

Don-t such my Penis,
Montparnasse,
Dijon-Lyon
Il train allez M,
George Simenon!

At the L-Hotel
stockings OFF,
Peace and War,
amour....
Or stories become Lore!


c2019. dave Delacroix.

Sunday, January 13, 2019

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix.. Lauren Bacall...Her tears, etc.


Our Man in Europe, dave Delacroix.....Lauren Bacall....Her tears, etc.


*Dedicato Carol Aniello. I kept this under wraps.



SONG.....Lauren Bacall.


Lauren Bacall! Lauren Bacall!
She was a sweet sad tomato
and her tears
they flowed like wine.

To Have and Have not,
BIG SLEEP,
B-W sheen
Hoagy at the Piano
I wanna Scream!

L-B! L-L-B!
A sweet sad Tomasso
but her tears, her smile like wine!

Signature voice, enigmatic poise,
when SHE says
U know how to WHISTLE,
don-t U,
U just put your LIPS together,
then BLOW

She was a Real sad Tomato
and her tears
they flowed like wine.
A penultimate,
sublime MAMMA,
her kisses are mine.....

Lauran Bacall, Lauran Bacall
she was a sweet sad Madonna
and her tears..they flowed like wine.


c2019, davedelacroix.


Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix....HOAGY CARMICHAEL and Me....Someday.



Our Man in Europe, dave Delacroix.....Hoagy Carmichael and Me....Someday.


..Someday.


Someday we-ll kiss
Someday we-ll tell the world
go to hell
like how we used to know
when U said
betty bacall,
u know how to whistle,
U just blow

some Icon
some Bogie too,
some Film-Noir danger
in a world we thought we knew
it-s still happening
when U say
I love U

Someday, we-ll whisper
like kids
sharing a bed
and cuddle toes
like we just met

U know, don-t-cha
how to whistle
my babee,
sweet a-slumber
and happiness
complete.

Someday we-ll kiss
Someday we-ll tell the World
go to Hell
like how we used to know
when U said.
Betty Bacall,
U know how to whistle
U just blow.


2019.January. davedelacroix. Murphys, Sciacca-Sicily. Ashtrays over-flowing. Grazi Dio!

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix.....The Nurse.



Our Man in Europe, dave Delacroix...The Nurse.

*dedicato. My Aged Uncle Thomas. He was an old Pal of my aged Foster Father. Thomas survived WW1 by getting wounded. He, I recall, had a Lean-Survivors aura. No War-conversation.Asked about, he-d, negligently smile, I guess.  His long-time Wife, she invited me,  having a knack for drawing, pencil on paper, I sketched her face, advised her...I was 12...that I would portray Wrinkles.


The Nurse.

MUST-A been the City Pick-Up boys,  the Fire Brigade...in case of Garbage flood...who PICKED Up my bagged, house-hold trash..
Must-a been a Samaritan. Sick in my GUTS, Ambulenza, Sciacca-Sicily, Emergency!
Get me Sorted out!
Must-a been in HISTORY! YO! An intrinsic continuum. Let your Mind dream!!!
Without Leonardo Giannone...I would not be here to write.

Must-a been that NURSE who patched me UP, who stitched and sowed, who grafted my WW11 Spitfire facial skin graft.
Not withstanding,
that Puppy-dog who came, happy,
and licked my disfigured face
suggesting, burnt, but STILL a Man.

….in the SAME boat,
the Luftwaffe-German Pilots,
just WHO cared for their battle defeat...

Must-a been HEAVEN for that new kid
shot down, in a fatal Victory roll,
over Dunkirk, out of sight,
who crashed, died in the Mud with so many good boys
knowing NO romance.
Only GOD-s Nurse
of never coming back again...to know her gentle touch.

Oh! Oh! Oh! And ANY which way,
how can we UN-tangle...


c2019,January.davedelacroix. In 1919 Spanish Influenze is ABOUT to Wipe Out more than the Casualties of the GREAT WAR.

Thursday, January 10, 2019

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix....OUIJA BOARD!



Our Man in Europe, dave Delacroix..... OUIJA-BOARD!

*dedicato Wolfgang, Walle and Rudi, mein Erfkriest-KOLN-Mensch of yesteryear...and Kreschen Assback, bruder, Swester Felicita im Bergheim.


OUIJA-BOARD!


U-here!....Babee...Morte…
Don-t be STUPID, I-m sitting NEXT to U
DOH!! Sorry Babee. Thought we were S-posed
to connect to the DEAD
I AM Dead, U Idiot
but for the LIFE of Me
I can-t BELIEVE
I got seated
NEXT to U.

SO, U R here.
OF COURSE I-m here!
I BOUGHT the tickets
to this SEANCE.
WHAT R U wearing..
TURN UP the fake candles,
U-ll see.

IS THERE ANYBODY THERE!!!
Just Me, your In-suffering Life-Partner
DESTINY,
All your I'M-patient Creditors
are in the shadows,
sinister-fangs-extended.

Can We call up the Ghost of
the SOLVENT past..
Maybe, Honey.
Get EVERYONE to put their FINGER
on the Glass!
OK! Shout, ABRACADRABRA-doobie!
Then jump out of the back window!

I LEAVE U, my Love,
my Ouija-board, my destiny!

Please thank the SPIRITS
who provided the London TAXI
this side of St. James Park
a scant mile
from Buckingham Palace.


c2019,davedelacroix,cafe porta Palermo, Sciacca-sicily.

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix....Lonesome Dick.



Our Man in Europe, dave Delacroix.... Lonesome Dick.


Lonesome Dick, HIGHWAYMAN,
from London to York
riding Black Bess,
stopping at Pot-houses,
changing costumes
Tri-corn hats.
disguise,
WANTED
dead or ALIVE!

Solo William Turpin
HIGHWAYMAN
1700s
STAND and DELIVER
your Purse, M-Lady!
….And with a farewell kiss
Dick Turpin
on black stallion,
Black Bess!...
into the Moorish night!

Legend has it,
his Lady,
dying of TB,
he rode Black Bess
from London
upwards to old York town,
150 miles!

Bess almost died of exertion,
DICK, captured!!!
HUNG at TYBURN,
Black BESS
the horse, later
stabled-out,
wrote his memoires....HHHHRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!



c2019,davedelacroix. Santangelo-bar, Sciacca-sicily.



Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix...MODESTO SAM....


Our Man in Europe, dave Delacroix.... Modesto Sam.

CALIFORNIA-D, Stockton, Sacramento, Modesto, Eureka, UP by Mount Shasta, Kids, Guys, Ladies, Folks I met upon my travels in San Jose, Vallejo, the offer of a price of coffee, Mount Shasta, Coast-Monterrey no Great-White Shark, whacked, till Tuesday. NO 5 $.in my Saving-s account, a Homeless dude back in L.A.  on W. Pico with a Cellphone, an Ocean City Life-Guard, the World at his feet, senza Wardrobe! Venice-by-the-Sea....WHERE!!!...the debris meets the Sea.

And an UN-known to the F.B.I., the C.I.A., also the BEACH BOYS, some Big Wednesday a-coming, either which way!... A Song dat U singing, a hero, a Victim! U R SO NAIVE!!!.....who walks forward upon the sand without a Kid-s ENGLISH  bucket and Spade, least ways, mom and pop and a Donkey ride!....Lolly-pops for Adults, Mescaline for the Donkeys, less they lose their faith in Homo-Sapian, the PIGS who feed, coral, LASH or TELL THEM.....

Babee is MY Babe. Babee is Your Babe. Babee is Our Babe. Babee is ALL she can become. Babee is Your Babe, the Dude is Your Dude, Persona! Babbee we KNOW IT, babee we Show it. Babee we just Kiss....WHILST we can. Babee, International, transatlantic, Uncle Sam. Unconscious kisses, abstract, forever!..
Tra-la-la-la!.....continue, mi amici. See U in Roma, Leonarda da Vinci Euro-Aero-porto!!!!


c2019,davedelacroix, siacca-sicily.

Wednesday, January 9, 2019

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix.... The Winter of TWO-OH-NINETEEN.


Our Man in Europe, dave Delacroix.....The Winter of 2019.


THEN was the Winter of our discontent. The lake of Life seemed frozen, the sedge had withered. The passing of Heroes, Icons, faithful domestic traits, the FULL conversation, not-Nano-tweets or the action or Posed Classic Photo as opposed to the SELFIE which laid any Proletariat, at least well-dressed, to rest!
ALL-Hallows Eve, all Hallows-Gal whose once secret, subtle, perchance to UN-wrap, genitalia, gone with the breeze, IN-flight of Fashion upon which alights a quick-witted, usually penniless Usurper to salivate upon her delusion of delights. Perhaps every daughters-father already knows...
OH!!! OMG. The Winter of NINETEEN... or in TIME, not a quarter Century old, yet culled in Time-s wistful breeze, the Winter of our discontent to LONG times, Time-s Traveller, now lost amongst the reeds... and the wailing of migrating birds, late in season, yet to come...


c2019,davedelacroix. Sciacca-Sicily-Jan.9th.,2019

Sunday, January 6, 2019

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix.... George Michael Canzone!


Our Man in Europe, dave Delacroix.... George Michael Canzone.


….I-m NEVER going to DRINK again
can-t find the Steps, ain-t got NO Rhythm,
it-s easy to pretend
U know I-m not a Drunk!
Should-a known better than
to drink that Scotch,
Gin and Vodka, frickin Bourbon!
So....I-m NEVER gonna drink again...
...Babee...just for You!
OH!....Oh-oh!   X-7.....

Pssst! Pass da Vino!


c2019, davedelacroix, Sciacca-Sicily, Sunday Morning a-commin down.

Saturday, January 5, 2019

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix...AUNTIE RUTH!


Our Man in Europe, dave Delacroix....Auntie Ruth!


*dedicato. Mary-Anastasia Witherspoon.


NOW WHEN I WAS A LAD, full of Piss and Vinegar, Mom and Pops, running the family Business, we had a MAID. We were NOT rich... but a dusting, bed-sheet changing, busy around the kitchen, Vacuum-stuff, AUNTIE RUTH, cleaned the house, patted my young head on her VIAGGIO.

One time she invited my MUM and me to HER house. Same thing, to MY child-eyes except she HID the BISCUIT TIN above the upper-curtain drawer over her FRONT WINDOW, FOR, she said, her adult kids were ALWAYS munching on them or purloining the entire TIN!... Oh! She got a chair. In retrospect,  a Hubba-Hubba! Climbed UP there in her Mini-skirt, 1966!!! She SURE was a pretty lady, a lady-cool. But she salvaged the Biscuit Tin, to share with the hospitality TEA which I remember to this day like a Memory Time-Capsule in all my brat-innocence. My wisdom Mama didn-t crack a smile. I just munched in my imagination on the damned, sacred biscuits!...The Tin was bereft of Biscuits,

WE lived in a village-central. Brinsworth. West Riding. Yorkshire. Auntie RUTH lived up the hill now where they built the M-1 Motorway. Athelstan the KING or King Blood-Axe employed this terrain as a battleground, OUR...me and my school kid louts, our playground. We would trade Arrowheads, like Playcards or CONKERS!   ME and ALL the kids around had to be BUSED, rain or snow, to a Snotty School in Aston, 15 miles away. From Brinsworth, Catcliffe, Treeton. It was the way it was. We used to PRAY for Snow. Get time-out from School. Auntie Ruth always said....Heavens-to-Betsy! I can-t find those Biscuits!!! 63 years later...I think I know what she meant and miss her so poignantly.


c2019.davedelacroix,our man someplace, reminiscing. Yo!

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix...NO Cool in June, this Winter.



Our Man in Europe, dave Delacroix.... NO COOL in June, this Winter.


NO COOL IN June
no song to sing
a picnic at
HANGING ROCK
last year
at Marienbad,
I will SEE U
soon,

a song, naked, clothed,
satin-tuxedo
a cha-cha-cha
to your SMIRK,
a sublime
in OUR step,
step, step!

A contra-dance
a disappear
a FAN, a glance
a DIAMOND,
your Years!

No Cool in June
Emerald eyes!
I dissolve
under your gaze.


c.2018, dave Delacroix. dancing with Anna Cimo or her Look-a-like in Sciacca-siciy.

Our Man in Europe,+ dave delacroix.....MAIGRET on Time.


Our Man in +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

dedicato. Loic. Paris.

Grande arrive etage, mes Ami

Only this side of YOU, Me-thinks, I could LIVE or Die like a MAIGRET Detective Case, some UM-berling, some BRASSSERIE-kiss, a warm St.Germaine-des=Pres  Chambre, from which Emotion cannot escape to a Montparnasse CafĂ© or a Gare du Norde to some pathos tourist  Montmartre, the waiter the Gendarme, Audjourdui-Sanguia! BLOODY foreigners RE-painting SERUAT with Muslim disdain, a NEW FILM NOIR. Piss and Vinegar. to dribble, Opera. AHMED doesn't get to consummate, DO dah Doobie-Do-Bee with SHEBA until after they have ….said a Prayer.

Only THIS side of You. A side of Beuoff. Patate. Legume. In Piccady. Honfleur ,  Mon Ami, where Beaudelaire, perhaps, our crazy Le Weekend. A challenge to the Micro-dot of your Inner-dynasty. I will see U.

O the Pazzo!
O the WISE..
As we Sail the Seven Seas.


c.2019,davedelacroix. In 100 years, the NEW Kids will think we are antiquated. Chances ARE they know nothing. A le recherche du temps perdu...ALLORS. Ous sans les neige dantan, mon brave!...Salute!!!+


Thursday, January 3, 2019

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix... FERRARI, My Lovely!


Our Man in Europe, dave Delacroix.... FERRARI, My Lovely!


...I WISH I could drive U HOME in MY Masserati. But-its-in-the-SHOP!!! No pre-occupare! U can SEE it through the SHOWROOM window, lubed. Getting dusted!

I WISH I could DINE U, a Paris, with U, in Maximes or SLUM at the 4-Seasons in New York City! But I GAVE my Credit-Card...in an act of Altruism to a Panhandler...outside the Guggenheim Art Museum. He looked like he NEEDED it. Said he worked on Wall Street. I HAD to believe him!

Wish, BELA, I could give U Heaven but-yet, invite U to see the TREASURE I have found in my Wacky-Life and the INTERNATIONAL friends IN my life...who constantly astound!

I WISH...your drooping eyes...I could drive U home tonight. A Ferrari in my Heart. Ferrari my Lovely...just walk into my heart.


c2019, davedelacroix,ourmanineurope,sciacca-sicily.

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix.....Canzone AMY WINEHOUSE.


Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix... Canzone Amy Winehouse.

….MY COOL Belladonna, SNOT NOSE, Perkin Warbek tits, pretensions to HIT songs, a battle-smug of WITS,, Inverted, twist and shout, IN VULVA or a SPERM on ANY Winehouse kitchen floor, Nano-Madre!
I saw U in Kensington, Notting Hill Gate, found OUT about your IN-efficient Mate where the ART-superficial, like a Toad-in-the-Pool, ALMOST back to School, a matrix for fools, what COMES, sometimes, too soon, comes too late....
Traveling on the Underground...Tell ME now. Do kisses last Forever.

c2019, davedelacroix,sciacca-sicily, wearin black. And All the Days gone down.