Our Man In Europe/dave delacroix/CANT REMEMBER, No. 20: RED LIGHT!"

Our Man in Europe/davedelacroix/CANT REMEMBER, No. 20:  " RED LIGHT!"

(dedicato: A REX MOSER song...and goes out to CAROLE M. A....)

...Have U ever
 bin lonesome?
Have U ever
 bin Blue?
Have U ever gone
 some days
with nothin
to Chew?

Have U ever
caught the light,
the way
 the light catches U?
Have U ever
felt afraid?
WELL!
That ends tonight...!

Have U ever
been Star-struck?
Happens
 in Denver every day?
And has for
your Bad Luck?
Some say
 it's SAD luck;
IT-Aint-Gonna-Stay!?

Have U ever
caught the Light?
The way
 the light catches U?
No need to be afraid;
Sweet Sista:
C'os that STOPS
tonight;
No need to be afraid?
RED LIGHT, baby!
C'os THAT just stops tonight!


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Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/Swansong Solioquy, No. 1: "A porch to the Sea..."

Our Man in Europe/davedelacroix/Swansong Soliloquy, No !:   "A porch to the Sea."


HUEY P. LONG (famed USA Governor/Red-Neck/Southern Boy), ensured Alabama-Mississippi folks were entitled to ROADS, beach-front property, and "then some!" (Something like that) In Mississippi a colossus bridge was erected - in Huey's name -  which to this day conveys folks "East to West" and bares/spans  his name across "da big muddy", place where your grandaddy-hill-billy-Noodle, caught Catfish and discovered Hot Sauce? -the mighty  Mississippi river...

I met JO-LEAN/old Highway 10/a Road-House/Blind Adams on stage/Steel guitar/sweatin' under corrugated tin shack/old trees and Spanish moss? JO-LEAN? -she was outright CAJUN; folks hailed from Lafayette down in the Mississippi delta.
She was quite ORANGE; her hair? puse blond, with a cream coloured complexion, eyebrows close to melding? She spoke CAJUN: "C'mon, ca'va, Davide?"
I replied: "I git no need: Je suis, Delacroix."
We were one.
One hour later? -we Canoed - she was taking me to her Bayou home - TH RU the Bayou (swamps)... She, attired for this Canoe-ing occasion, wore a Texas Straw Cowboy Hat, denim dungarees, a Tee-shirt that growled thru over laundering/otherwise, it might have said "I'm COMMIE or GAY" or FUCK OFF DAVE? -Rattlesnake Mohican's (shoes)?  Did I mention them? Canoe-wise; she also knew how to steer.
She CHEWED tobacco, incidentally, and spat constantly.

As the sun was coming up...We canoe-ing, we passed some slumbering CROCODILES... Noticing my apprehension, JO-LEAN winked: "Dey ain't GATORS, Dave? Dey just CAYMANS; BBQ, if U get mah mind?" adding, "Cotton-mouths (snakes)? -U look for dim!" -her face, pungent with honest appeal. My OWN face, no doubt, was an ambivalent question mark?
(SHE-JUST-LAUGH) -as we Canoed into the Lafeytian, Bayou delta...

The BAYOU? -In the "Bayou?" -there's kind of a "dumpster-diving, life-style, VENETIAN Society. People live and thrive there? Floating houses, Floating HOPE: Hotels and "Rest Stops"; things "jest " FLOAT! -Oil lights are put on. Skiffs and E-longated Water-crafts all arrive "en cue" (word got out!) bearing Banjos, beer, and a confection of "edibles": "Mud bugs, Craw-Dads, Gumbo! -some of the folks put on a ROAST - in a SPIT - , probably "sweet and sour" CAYMAN", then the crowd get to singing: "Evangeline", ANYTHING by" Credence Clearwater Revival",  and later: "Evangeline"...

Naturally (?), as an OUTSIDER, I was put thru the GATOR BBQ-GRILL:
"How du U know ma Sista?"
"How come U know my Ex-girlfriend?"
"Are U gonna fuck my Mother?"
"My daughter is respectable; I hope U gonna treat her right?"
"She's my 3rd Cousin on my MOM's side! -If U screw her up
I gotta a SHOTGUN.... I also got an UZI!!! -I'm part Jewish!"...

JO-LEAN'S houseboat, with full utility, fridge, boudoir, Cucina, sofa, queen-size bed and big screen TV, in which she and I sojourn, "rocked!" - I guess? -to-and-fro for several hours and, presumably, kept the swamp critters (especially the CROCODILES) at bay?

SETH or LOIC (My Bayou TAXI Bro?) arrived, duly at 8.30 a.m. and "ferried" me back, close to a Highway, pointing: NEW ORLEANS.

JO-LEAN, on my leaving, wrapped only in a cotton shift/Mosquito net, and full-knowing that we would perhaps, never meet again, hollered out: "DAVIDE! BON CHANCE! -Watch out for the Cotton-mouths!?"
Her business acumen was impeccable.

...HUEY P. LONG (the Original Governator!) may NOT have ensured Mississippi or Alabama's rigtheous "beach view" (details! details!) but he KNEW-understood the "PO-Boys", JAMBALAYA, the DELTA GUMBO, Jo-lean and Me, and the HOME the "have-nots" crave with the strength of the mighty Mississippi river, and the RIGHT to a porch to sea.



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Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ZENITH, No. 18: "YA DRUNK!"

Our Man in Europe/davedelacroix/ZENITH, No. 18:  "YA DRUNK!"...

(...a love song)

(Singing:)  Oh, you're drunk, you're drunk
ya silly old skunk
from Dublin to Arnalee?
Whenever I drive U home at night,
we gotta stop so dat U can PEE.

I love dat dress you're wearing,
and once U looked so fair?
But now you're the TALK OF KILARNEY;
from here to County Clare.

Oh, you're drunk, you're drunk
ya silly old skunk
from Dublin to Arnolee?
Whenever I drive U home at night
we gotta stop so dat U can PEE.

And when I first loved U? Oh, my-
MAGGIE! -Waterford Crystal
never shone so fine, in Leinster
or Tipperary (!?).

Oh, ya drunk, ya drunk
ya silly old skunk
from Dublin to Arnolee?
Whenever I drive U home at night
we gotta stop so U can PEE.

And now we're getting "on"  in years,
I don't believe I can drive?
-the Black and Tans, served by the Pint
and Lithie Water undermines!

Oh, you're drunk, ya drunk
Ya silly old skunk
from Dublin to Arnalee?
Whenever I drive U home at night
we gotta stop  - several times! - so U can PEE.



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Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ZENITH, No. 17: "...Sabatto Notte - Domenica Mattina..."

Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/Zenith No. 17:  "...Sabato Notte - Domenica Mattina..."


CIAO, Ragazzi! Il mondo SUCKS!
-Via e Vita!
And then KISS
your Ass,  arrivederci.

CIAO, Ragazzi! No malati?
No stanco?
Pantalone, Avanti!
Amici, Signor  Berlesconi:
NO DOMANI -for U!!!

...Sabato notte - Domenica
Mattina?
Lunedi, amici: buono fortuna!...:)


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Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ZENITH No. 16: BAD LOSERS, No's: 1 and 2...

Our Man in Europe/davedelacroix/ZENITH, No 16:  BAD LOSERS No's: 1 and 2...


No. 1:  "Last of the Rissoles."

(Originally an American literary classic, now an ART HOUSE "flick"-Musical,  featuring Exotic Male dancers!)

SCENE:  A Fish and Chip shop by Brighton Beach in England.

CAST OF CHARACTERS:

The Mohican's  (five of them)

The Rissoles  (five of them)

The film crew  (five of them)

Every ones dies...:)

Produced and Directed by Dave Delacroix.


No. 2:  "Othello."

Celtic by name yet black of heart? Your girl did twirl that song you hum?
"Marry me in the morning?" she cried. And yet, you killed her with an AXE
and then threw her body in the Well?

Oh well? Lack-a-day; oh well, lack-a-day; my Lady I did slay.

Did she bring you primroses? Did she bring you wealth?
Are you the Man that, once, so true, caught milady's eye?
And now she's killed...and buried in the Well?

Oh well? Lack-a-day; oh well, lack-a-day; my Lady I did slay.

A Force BENEATH; Iago, by name? -put the poison in my brain.
Naturally - what da frick!? - I put Iago to HIS own grave, but
my Lady-love, in temper, I could not save?

Oh well? Lack-a-day; oh,well, lack-a-day, my Lady I did slay.

My body OWN, now descends into a Well, with my Lady, I
will stay: Traveller? You who pass on by? Say a Khadish, a
solemn prayer, for my Lady-love; as for Me? -just pass on by.

Oh well? Lack-a-day; oh well, lack-a-day: My Lady I did slay...


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Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix@aol.com/ZENITH. No. 15: "Winners!"

Our Man in Europe/davedelacroix/ZENITH, No. 15:  "Winners!"


Spin a wheel, DO the "PO-GO!"
-and then, tell me what it costs?
GO play Roulette, in Las Vegas
and confess that U have lost!

Like a moment, never ending,
can the Thief of Time reward?
And in death, that never-ending,
leaves the clothes that U once wore?

Catch the Spirit of your Season,
work the callous in your mind;
why did Easter come so quickly
like a "Lucky Stiff!" Gold-mine?

Did U spend it all on Lucia,
did you spend too much on May?
And did the she suck your tits
in a time... and tested way?

It's not for me to judge
just how U won or lost?
But in-between your "meaning"
we are forced to count the cost?

Lovers walk upon the shore
and leave graffiti in the sand
like an old soliloquy, played by
Sgt. Pepper's
(pretty lonely)
Hearts-Club band?

So spin a wheel, DO "The DORK!",
U tell me U have lost?
But it's ONLY Winners
who know what winning costs?

Fly a kite! And, as to Credit?
You are robbed just fair and square?
And the Kid that U once were
is no-longer there;

Sing a love song, write a poem,
and see what U will find?
-An illusion, when U remember,
and the Treasure we once mined...



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Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ZENITH, No. 14: "FI-FI - DELACROIX - and FIF-FI!"

Our Man in Europe/davedelacroix/our man in Europe/ZENITH, No. 14:  "FI-FI - DELACROIX - and
FI-FI!"


Fi-Fi - and Fif-Fi (female Italian TWINS/one brunette/one blond) who've been "with me" for over a year, now never fail to amaze?... It's better I introduce them through AN OTHER'S perspective?... My "sorrella" (sister in Piacenza) FIONA happened by Saturday eve; we had tentative plans to carouse, but how - sometimes? - the shadow of "Amateur Night" (Friday) sometimes blights its sequential neighbour, and lethargy, alas, uncharacteristic of it's baptismal dynamic, plus, fiscal concerns negated-said social diversion?

FIONA? Rampant as usual, enters my chambers at the HOTEL DAVE (€35 per nite/big screen TV) and is astonished to find me "swathed" in "Jammie's", a woolly tartan night robe, Persian slippers; upon my head? -a tweed Coppola!
FI-FI (No.1) is barefoot, attired in a silk Kimono emblazoned with DELFT China legend, wafting my sweating brow with a humongous Peacock feather-fan that aerates the HOTEL DAVE (€35 per nite/big screen TV) reception area...
And FI-FI (No.2): Blond hair down her back to her butt, is attired in a LAVA LAMP SARI which - apparently? - necessitates an electric power-point connection to activate its florescence, plus, the need/with stipulation for wearing "rubber soul" footwear; in this case? -Uppers of Sandal-wood from the ancient forests of Thailand...?

I had had a long and busy day on the Inter-net, ingesting SPAM, Game-Challenges, F-book tittle-tattle and preposterous proposals from the WILLIAM MORRIS (Talent thingy) AGENCY in Hollywood?
FI-FI and FI-FI just KNEW my despair!... Like I said? My "Sorrel la" (sister) , FIONA, showed up, FRIZZANTE! Took ONE look at my - obvious plight -  considered calling RE-HAB, the CARABINERI (cops), a Scottish Uncle of mine (Angus) who lives adjacent to LOCH NESS and harangues the BBC with incessant/weekly sightings of "Nessie!", then thought better of it; hopped into my "king-size" bed, alongside FI-FI, whilst FI-FI (No.2/LAVA LAMP)  served up V-Martinis (UP!) and we all watched a re-run of the Dave Letterman show on the HOTEL DAVE -big screen TV.

Ahem!...:)


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Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ZENITH No. 13: "Only the Lonely..."

Our Man in Europe/dave3delacroix/ZENITH, No. 13:  "Only the Lonely..."

(dedicato: Lucrezia Borgia)


Only the Lonely
read the info on a Soup Can?
Only the Lonely
get  "on-line"
and want the SPAM?
There goes Tomorrow!
There goes Today!
Maybe Tomorrow
some Love comes your way?

...And when their lonely
heart breaks?
-no-one will hear.

Only the Lonely?
-we've ALL been there, before?
Only the Lonely, ironically (?)
aren't afraid of Heavens door.
See you, September!
See you in May?
Catch me a whisper?
Will that girl come to stay!?
WHOO-OO! -WHOO-OO!!!

But when you're Lonely?
-Such things don't come your way.
... And when you're Lonely?
Such things, don't come your way.



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Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ZENITH, No. 12: Rimini Beach, 4.a.m. ...

Our Man in Europe/davedelacroix/ZENITH, No. 12:  Rimini Beach, 4.a.m ...


"There's SUN coming up!" -says Delores.
"The Earth, turning?" -I proffer.
"...Now Sea above Sky!" -she says.
"Earth upon the Moon?" -I ask
"Dark, to cloak the Light." -she whispers.
"And the light of the Sun?" -I ask.
"A crystal in Space. A reflection."
she answers.
"Is that what you think
when I ride you, in bed?" -I smile.
"IN BED, my sweet David?...."
(she sighs:)
"...Is when the Heavens open...!"

Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ZENITH, No. 12: GREYHOUND BUS: THE MOVIE!

Our Man in Europe/davedelacroix/ZENITH, No. 12:  GREYHOUND BUS: THE MOVIE!

1:

Flagstaff ain't got nuthin' on me. Kingman (town), ALL dem towns!
Rattlesnake 'round-up? (No such thang), Bronco bustin',
lasso and around?

2:

Long since I gone  "dustin", my Duster;
the KICKERS (dem dat can?),
the TRUCKERS (dem day Will!),
and the COWBOY ANGELS
who will pan your heart for gold,
yet fail to sieve the nugget
of your soul?
-Flagstaff ain't got nuthin' on me...

3:

Is it still Wednesday? A triple echo?
Dat day/nite, TRUCK-STOP, C.B.'s
squawkin' with no sense of Time?
...U left me at the HORNY TOAD SALOON
down on 6th. Street, Austin, Texas;

I was - on dat Wednesday? - soooo
desolate, I took comfort/camaraderie
at the JACK-HAMMER (Gay bar)
and subdued 3-XXX vodka-martinis
along with the usual suspects
(mostly Interstate Construction workers)
and U never answered my calls!?

Is it STILL Wednesday? Is it?
Wednesday, again?
Out in the desert, with Satellite T.V.,
in our AIRSTREAM trailer;
where your Man awaits?

4:

...Greyhound bus from Austin, Texas,
to Tennessee. Greyhound bus
to YOU from me;

Greyhound bus, all nite long:
GAS, FOOD, MOTEL!
-Greyhound bus - Little Rock (Arkansas)
to Kansas City, Missouri.

Greyhound bus to Albuquerque,
New Mexico;
down to El Paso; Greyhound bus
to YOU from me,
searching for U...

5:

...I don't REMEMBER U. I don't.
Have you seen my shoes?
I don't remember you.

I CAN'T forget about U. Just
WHO U are?
I can't forget about U; have U seen my shoes?
Did U  go to New York City?
Did U  go to San Francisco?
...I don't remember U:
Have you seen where I left my phone?

6:

Flagstaff, Winslow-Arizona, ALL dem towns?
They got nuthin' on Me.
Rattlesnake-round-up?
(NO such thang!)
Bronco-bustin', LASSO
and "dustin' all around...



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Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ZENITH, No. 11: "TOO Cocky in Nagasaki!"

Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ZENITH No. 11:  "Too Cocky in Nagasaki!"


(dedicato, USA guitar-maestro; DAMON WOOD/recent  conversation with girlfriend FI-FI!)


"Dave? Should I?"
(I don't know)
"I'm in LOVE with him!?"
(So?)
"Is he ANY GOOD?"
(I don't know)
"Wot should I do?"
(ditto)
"Any advice?"
(Wot do YOU think?)
"Well? He's kinda cute?"
(No shit)
"I think he's actually got a "real" JOB?"
(No shit)
"But he's COCKY!?"
(Cocky?)
"Too cocky in Nagasaki!"

(Does he play guitar?)
"No. He doesn't."
(Prone to Mathematics?")
"I don't think so...?"
(Does he run around, late at NIGHT, naked, wielding a Samurai Sword?)
"Not that I've noticed. He's CHINESE."
(He's NOT from JAPAN?)
"No. He's CHINESE. He's from Shanghai!"
(Do you?)
"Do I WHAT?"
(Do YOU run around, late at night, naked, wielding a Samurai sword?)
"Occasionally? -well; yes."
(So YOU-yourself, are COCKY?)
"Cocky?"
(Looking for a Cocky-Man?!)
"What's your point?...


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Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ZENITH No. 10: "In Canaan"

Our Man in Europe/davedelacroix/ZENITH, No. 10:  "In Canaan".


In Canaan, somewhere
close to the Golan Heights?
-I did my active service:
A Jew, an Arab,
a Gentile with a left handed gun?
I shot him down.

I will never meet his brothers
or sisters who loved him so well?
I will never meet his MOMMA
who took care of him and loved him so well?

(I shot him down)

I will never meet his father
who had so many plans for HIS young boy?
I will never KNOW
- in my eternal sorrow -
that young boy's joy?

... In Canaan?



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Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ZENITH, No. 9: THE PIACENZA CRICKET CLUB (P.C.C.)

Our Man in Europe/davedelacroix/ZENITH No. 9:  The  Piacenza Cricket Club  (P.C.C.)

(dedicato:  Mike - Machine-Gun! - Elkerton/a True Ex-Patriot)

...IT WAS INTENSE. (Really!) Sunday afternoon, blazing sun. The BRITS up against the PAKISTANIS, on Piacenza's "village green"/grassy spot next to Renaissance crumbling city walls?
National pride was at stake!
Opening "innings?" -the Pakistanis bowled against the Brits (I was Captain of the team); ergo,  my nerves were on edge even if it WAS only "6-a-side" and we were ALL wearing "Whites"?

...WE (the Brits/mostly Italian) were "UP" to 50! -getting ready to "declare" when Pharney (Pakistani name/ opposing team Captain) bowled me out fair and square:
"OWSATT!!!"
So we stopped for Darjeeling (tea). Then? THAT'S when it got really interesting? The "crowd" (5 people) were going wild! The PAKISTANI team CREAMED US: 50 - 51, with a last "under-arm" ball , again, by Pakistani team Captain, PHARNEY - whose NAME will live on in Cricket professionalism-infamy!!!
I was devastated.
But? -relax, BRITS. My Lawyers are on the Case. THIS is going to Civil Court.


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Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ZENITH, No. 8: "Goodnight, Irene."

Our Man in Europe/davedelacroix/ZENITH No. 8:  "Goodnight, Irene."


When it WASN'T fun anymore?
When I went Left, and U went Right?
When YOU said "Yes", and I said,
maybe, or maybe I said "No", or
"No big deal"? -just a strange encounter
in some airport, railroad station
or at a bus stop in St. Germaine Du Pre;
it was raining?

The GODS make fools of us all:
This restaurant,
this cafe; and
this patio, over-looking the Seine
where Apollinaire once walked,
wounded, and drank a Pastis?

When it wasn't fun anymore?
I looked into the slits of your eyes?
And I self-deceived; when it wasn't
fun anymore.

Irene? -goodnight.
Irene? -goodnight.
Goodnight, Irene, goodnight, Irene;
I'll see U in my dreams...


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