Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix.... Covid-Cafe!

Our Man in Europe, davedelacroix... COVID CAFE


Never thought you-d RING
Never thought I-d SING
Never thought I-d  groove
never in my last mind
I-d know the Truth...

Never wished so HARD
Played my only CARD
And never wished Las Vegas
Adios-baby!
That Night at the Covid Cafe

And all the Rumba boys
the Samba Gals
The Chakka-sistas
who hypnotize U!....
....A MASK for every occasion
seems to enchant you
as I walk-faceless, alone
into the night...

Never thought You-d Ring
Couldnt believe my ears!
Never thought I-d SING
but I sing for you....but, yes
I sing for you.


c.2020. davedelacroix, chateaux-suisse, gascony-france.

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix... Steppin out!

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix... Steppin out!

dedicato. Miss Pascale.

....SHE-s WALKING fine
She-s Steppin Out
just got off her Waitress-shift
Tips in Pocket,
nobody spittin
or grabbing her ass,
no MASK
No BLM
no boogaloo!
Not a care in the World.
She-s walkin Fine!
She-s Steppin Out
and everything is Cool
unlike that Man-made,
WOMAN-gentrified HELL,
the Non=smoking, No-Fun
desolation-lost Bar-Cafe,
La Tavern-MISERY,
the Society YOU have made.
YUP!
She-s Free! And Steppin Out!


c.2020. davedelacroix, chateaux-suisse, hot july.

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix... The FAN!

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix.... The Fan!


dedicato. Dylan Chiesi a Piacenza.


WISH I HAD a Fan, some GAL,, some Kid who=d know when I was Through. And I wish I had a Gal from long ago who-d re-write the Songs and settle Love-s score. Wish I had a Bank Dude, squirrel me a loan, love-s  deposit. Gone to blazes! Wish I still had that old Guitar, but Guitars like  girlfriends they come and Go. Wish I still had that POETRY, that thang.. entwined U to Me. Wish I had a FAN, some Gal, some Kid...who=d write it down for Me. Wish I had a FAN, a Kid at the beginning, once like Me....


c.2020, davedelacroix.

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix... Cold Beer Rising!

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix... Cold Beer Rising!....a.k.a Le Matin du Faun dans le Jardin, Chateaux-Suisse.

...I talk to dah TWEES
that-s why they lock me away,
I paint the birds and bees
in your eyes...

I-m down on my knees
U don-t hear a word I say,
SUDDENLY! That breeze
and everything-s alright!

...I traveled the World
...to RE-place U.
...better than THAT
than meet U face to U and U.

I YAK to the Trees
they-re gonna lock me away
but in my mind
 your Smile always stays
In my Heart
to never go away.


une matin du faun...dans le jardin.



c.2020. davedelacroix, chateaux-suisse, gascony-france. 

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix... On London Bridge.

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix... On London Bridge,


Worried bout the next WINE virus...Me too! Frickin Lame-ass Lives matter! Pissed off with the frickin Dude next door, SHOOT the Bastard. His siblings will need Islamic-de-braining. As for Miss Ganga-Social Worker, maybe SHE-S got a spare room! The BROS-Supreme-enista at No. 9, Beatles-RAP, HEIL BOJO!!!...not to interrupt their morning Goosestep-march...I-m tempted to suggest some Choreography, maybe an Islamic Swirl, Pink costume and onlooking MALE Islam dudes-WEAR A VEIL, and rabid-Non-Smoking Cyclists well, wotchagonn=DO! The HOOD. Camera ON!...on London Bridge. JEEZE MAN! It-s Gridlock!


c.2020, davedelacroix, chateaux suisse, france.

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix... Rott-weiler Sombrero.

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix... Rot-weiller-Sombrero


SNIFF YA DOGG, gimmie ya purse-LADY, BETTER STILL Ya LIFE, why-d U walk away...Intro to my BLM Journalism. Big-school, nobody, dead David Bowie, the Lost Limousine, Rott-weiller Sombrero. Your last Chapeau!
Mental Jailbreaks. Fricks live in YOUR room. Wotchagonna-DO! That Dog don-t hunt. Your dumbass Bro, Sista, Mamma, Pappa chuckin shit at cops, bustin up the Town. SNIFF YA DOGG!!!

c.2020, davedelacroix. Blinded by the Night.

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix... House-Screams!!



Our Man, like YOU, busta-trombone, maybe a Sax, a Clarinet but EVERY Kid knows...as a KID...to blow a HORN. YOU-MAN, in Africa, Siberia or Turkmanistan, we get a CHANCE to play-SING out our Souls! There-s no PROFIT  but WE get to Groove...and maybe SHARE, somehow...
Our Dude in Europe, your PLACE, my Gig too, Sing out Brother, sing out SISTA!!!...Make it loud.
Open 1-3-1-2-1 =Open....Trumpet Scale. My SIGNAL to YOU. First thing I musically learnt before I went into the World!
OUR MAN, your Dude, a Narrative, a psycho-compass-boogaloo, East of Pesos, South of Hail Mary, North of Moriah, House-screams! -your last daughter-s kiss.
Maybe it was OPEN 1-2-3-1=OPEN.
....I got DEAF. Maybe a new beginning....


c.2020, davedelacroix, chateaux-suisee-france.

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix... MENU for MURDER.... D n D Detective...Coffee Black.

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix.... MENU for MURDER...D N D Detective,  Coffee Black.

dedicato. Jan-Michael Vincent.

...HE WAS PICKIN his teeth with a Needle. Not a Knife. Not a Scalpel, not a Samorai sword. THIS Boogaloo was not your every day Black-Jack MOJO. Usually Santa Monica is a quick stare. Beach pants, YAKKA-tee shirt, kamikazi stare. Different bird.
In NEED of bird nest soup I proffered a Confession like Won Ton Soup.
KON-NI-CHI-WA!
And as soon as he responded I KNEW he wasnt the Dude!. Sgt. Nalty, LAPD=s finest had got the wrong kid. But the KID knew something and he wasnt Happy=Talk.
Anyhow, the Asian Community in Southern California like US Whitties! Gotta problem! Get it OUT! The missing-Asian kids, word electric, Santa-Monica=San Pedtro=Pallisades UP by Ventura State line the WIRE ran hot!
Che-Shang , big dude-apparently, call in.....Call IN. HIS dialect.  Nobody wanted to lose face. Wotchagonna-DO when 20 MISSING KIDS suddenly come OUT of the woodwork, swear they were not in a Sweat-Shop, Point Dume-Malibu Surfing, out on a Weekend!... Yo! DnD. Missing Kids. Missin Faces on the Milk CARTON. Chinese kids too!!!... Coffee black. Sometimes. Like a Lie. And then some. U swallow...Make mine 2 sugars!...


c.2020, davedelacroix, ourmanineurope.

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix... The Mean Season

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix... The Mean Season


One of DEM brutal days,
Oven-roasted streets,
Everyone U meet, half dead
dehydrated, FANTA-expiration,
one of DEM boogaloos
a whistle without a tune
a TOOTH without enamel,
a lipstick drooping smirk.

One od DEM daze, a house
without a Home, a Message,
someplace, lost in the CLOUD
that Cloud-thingy
where All Selfies go to Heaven!
That Cloud-Information
which one day MIGHT
come raining down on U.

One of DEM brutal stinking
god-forbid whoosis!
The one you should fear.
...where Angels fear to tread.
The Mean season.


c. davedelacroix, ourmanineurope,chateaux-suisse, GER-france.

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix... Romeo is bleeding.

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix... Romeo is bleeding.


dedicato. Isabel Pessoa.


ROMEO IS bleeding and
Go figure,
Juliet, long since gone!
As the goddamned Planet
does it Tricks,
No accounting for Heart
over Mind,
just that Giaconda smile
that DRIVES Love-s stake
on home
and a Bloody-Mary
a petite-dejeuner, frickin breakfast!
...pour le demain
or maintenant!...Sil vous plait!
ROMEO is bleeding
just like the Play...Bienvenue!


c.2020, davedelacroix, Chateaux-Suisse, Gascony-France.

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix...Wouldnt it be Nice!

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix... Wouldnt it be Nice!



Wouldnt it be nice if that buzz-bug just got the hell out of my frickin room AND
wouldnt it be NICE if there was Peace on Earth, and wouldnt-etc. I didnt have to wear a COVID-19 Mask every time I said I wanna Fuck U!...Sometimes in Anger, sometimes in COMMERCE, and sometimes, can I share your Bicycle! Frickin gizmo-wheels! A Maserati! Ya, Ya, OK!
Wouldnt it be NICE if NICE was just Nice. A Sandwich by the Canal without Fucking  SEX-subversion involved. Yet Rivers, Canals, lonely places, nothing on T.V., pre-cellphone daze, birds and the Bees. That godamned Mockingbird!
I sigh...Wouldnt it be NICE if WE were older in a WORLD outside of our YEARNING. A World  where WE had some UNDERSTANDING and a PAUSE foot-control at our ever=ready toe!
I-d discuss this with my Milkman.
No longer delivers Milk
With my local Butcher.
Gone Vegan.
With the Newspaper Kid.
Bicycle. Got crushed by,,,ya dont wanna know.
With my Ex=wife.
Go figure.
With my Psychiatrist
....funny how instinctively I can SPELL the Doc-s title....
.........
SO!
Wouldnt IT be nice!




c.davedelacroix, chateaux Suisse, France/

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix.... I Forgot!

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix... I Forgot!



dedicato. Gal I met North of Alberqueque. I was hitch-hiking. She was ON HER WAY to be a Big Shot in L.A. Journalism. I miss her still though we never met. Just 6 hours on the Highway. Together!


I forgot.
I forgot your name
I forgot,
I forgot the Haloucaust,
the Death-Kampf
I forgot, too
our Anniversary.
I stayed YOUNGER
-forgot 5 years
S-how it IZ.

I forgot.
I forgot the forgetting.
\mostly \\me, not \YOU
the kind-a thangsta-
sticks in  your spine-
no-reason
a forgetting!

I forgot the Politico
knockin mah head
I forget the Poets,,,who bled.
I forgot
OUR Song,
How did it GO!
GAZ CHAMBER- Marsellaise
row on row....

.....
......


And WHO amongst the Angels will RE-string a Lyre and...woe betide!...sing a Song of DEMENTIA Vox Populaix!...as FORGOTTEN PEOPLE nestle in their Comfy Tombs!



c.davedelacroix, Chateaux-Vic-Fezensac, France.

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix....Quiet DAYS in VIC-Fesensac

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix...QUIET days in VIC-Fezenzac


dedicato. Le Marquis Jean Debats.


QUIET DAZE in VIC-F
least, it WAS
till I got here! And after
I-m DEAd  or left=as usual,
a Parking Lot!

WHO gets the MIDAS touch
Who get the the Fashionista-terra!
Malibu! Aspen! Porto=fino!
Or Morecombe and Wise!

WHO treads like  a Lamb
yet ROARS like a TYGER,
and what COINS-hand or EYE
 frames thy Tourist-symmetry!

QUIET DAYS in  Vic-Fesensac...
Girl I knew,
she rode horses. Her name was Annie!



c,davedelacroix, chateaux-suisse, gascony-france.

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix... The Long Hari-Kari.

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix... The Long Hari-Kari.

dedicato.Hisato.


Sanscere, without Care!
Never too hungry
Never too sick
Never too lost
...just lost in it All.

Sanscere, a Gig or 2
Wotchchagonna-DO!
Only the half-wished
ICONIC
later to disabuse.

Sanscere, that LONG
Hari-kari
a cancellation,
a repressed OLE!
And that eternal,
forgotten YOU -inside!


c.2020, davedelacroix, chateuax suisse, gascony-france.

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix... I am NOT a Robot.

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix... I am NOT a Robot.


I am NOT a ROBOT
Perish YOUR thought,
Perish your CONCEPT
,,,do a double-take
a funny walk
maybe WALK alone.

I am NOT a Robot.
Got no Metallic-cosmetics
always failed in Mathmatics,
spell!"!
never count the CHANGE
at the Bar,
girlfriends, likle GUITARS
they come and GO!

I am NOT a Robot
avec le Cancer-sick
but still gotta KICK
for the DE-visive, Fascist,
that ANGST inside YOU,
pitter-patter...Buonna fortuna!

I am not YOUR DUDE.
never-was!



c.2020, july, gascony-france, davedelacroix.

Our Dude in Europe, dave delacroix,,, This side of Paradise

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix.. This side of Paradise..



THIS SIDE of U know where
This side ...what to WEAR

This GIG, everybody SING
this side,,, of Blue.

THIS SIDE its gotta SWING
this side, some place to BEGIN
and this side
U eat what U EAT,,,,, tonight.

THIS SIDE in love or War
this CULTIRE, a Statue falls!
This Song, an elocution
for,  the illiterate.

THIS SIDE U chant and cry
Guitar-rings but no-one Sings,
this side of Paradise,
this KISS, un-met in a Cold
decides just where U go.




c2020, davedelacroix.

OUR MAN in Europe...dave delacroix....Afghanistan Wedding!

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix... Afghanistan Wedding!

....I AM 6 years old. I am just starting SCHOOL. My Foster Parents bought me a bright-green Uniform.  I gotta small Satchel .My socks and Under=wear are clean, paper-notebook, pencil. Arithmatix, Literacy, a condensed Khoran, Shakespeare. The WORLD is Mine!
But WHY  is it my foster-parents SCREAM and SHOUT all night!..

....In the MORNING I must meet the 60 year ORGRE I must Marry!....I am a GIRL!!!! Please help!...

c.2020, davedelacroix.

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix... MY CLUB HAVANA SOCIAL CLUB...

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix... My Club Havana Social Club.


Some BLONDE stringer sez SHE-likes to Mango! U hangin with dah rong crows. There-s a MURDER, a MURDA of crows over ya Samba tete!!! That Nobodody knows. Juess dah whisper of Tafetta, the kiss of cocktail-smile and there IS U. U! U!
Some Ragazzo, spick N Carouso, dances LIKE Valentino, in you ARMS, give up your Senorito, you bleed like a piglet in his charms then U Say TO YOUR cHEVALIER, i JUST, FORGIVE ME, i had TO cOME!....
Some Amori, Amorati, some TANGO-Fuck-U, some Tango-Acrorabatica, and forgive me DALHING these SHOES are Killing Me! I FEEL your Gain!
Anyways! Mio, I-m sitting with the Hat-Check Gal. Havent SEEN U in a while. We-re goin to HER place. Drink Margahritas, play Salsa music, tapas and groove. Catch U tomorrow Babee. As for MY Club Havana....guess u get to see it in the rain.

c.2020, davedelacroix.

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix... STANLEY KUBRIK-3010.

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix...Stanley Kubrik-3010


Hi Stanley!! Coming AT ya from Studio Z, Live in Las Vegas! The First EARTHMAN selected out of  the Millions who Volunteered to be an Inter-stellar Guinne-pig...in L.V. we pronounce it GWINNIE, sure don-t U mind...Anyhow, U-ved been IN the ONE-WAY Inter=space-thingy Apollo tin can whassit for FIVE YEA|RS and counting...and what ARE your present thoughts!... But before U answer let me explain for our Nickolodean-slot-machine-gambling audience that YOU are a Afro-American or Muslim Dude, father of two kids, husband of FIFI-television-dietician host, career rapidly declining, and that U were once the sometime Leader of the now disenfranchised KWANZI-REVIVAL group... Le Tonga-Tonga whose sole music chart hit was GIMMIE DAH BAIL-BONDSMAN MON!....So...Out there, 3 light years away, and SOME say, predictably, Lost in Space, how U doing Bro!,,,
.....STATIC.


c.2020, davedelacroix.