Our Man in Europe. now living in BELIZE, Dave Delacroix: "Mariachi Opus 2."

 Our Man in Europe, now living in Belize, Dave Delacroix: "Mariachi Opus 2."

(dedicato: to Alan Siilhetoe, English writer, 1960s who penned "The loneliness of the long-distance Runner" with whom, being a young Poet, 1970s, Alan corresponded with me. We shared collective tales of early childhood poverty.)

"Mariachi Opus 2."

...SOME MEN WEAR A HAT for warmth, some for Fashion, some for SHADE. It's an oddball World...Some R Scientists, some, outdoors, in the heat or cold, some to attract a Lover's NEON? Whilst SOME to shadow their evil play, yet a hat with a guitar, all descriptions listed above, the MARIACHI...trumps the game.

...The Mariachi: Sometime be-spangled a 'la Toreador! Sometimes in RAGS knocking at a girlfriend's late-night door? But never without Hat/Guitar, or at a Cafe, GUITAR-STRUM, a Poem-recital, at the drop of a sombrero, a Cantata to dance to, a tale to catch the eye of a Beauties flirting eye? An anthem to swarm the minds of a drunken crowd? Flamenco, the Blues. Storied lovers, the outcome is the same?

Some BOYS become old men before their time. Wannabe-Minstrels! And before your eyes? A genetic disintegration, a portrait of Dorian Grey, no SAP in their "diabolic", "weekend" rockstars or 6-String complainers; just where do these latter-day medieval "mummers"/MINSTRELS go to die? In a Butcher's Shop enterprise? "Pork or Beef Sausages Madam?" "We just got fresh Ham?" A soliloquy to prick the conscience of a Cougar or an old Queen?

ALL HAIL-AVE!!! The Mariachi. Some Gringo, Spanish, Mexican who never wavered, who stayed on course thru thick & thin yet scorned by guitar-wannabees-amateurs who could not Rock N' Roll? "The loneliness of the long-distance runner", victory in sight: The marathon finishing post, the regular LADS a 'trailing, the Mariachi, FAME-anon, in his minstrel-sad world, a race to WHA!? -who decided not to shine nor elect to win.

c.2026. Dave Delacroix.