Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ "ROMEO and JULIET!"

Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ "Romeo and Juliet."


...I am really having a problem with all these Gals (floods of adulating E-mails), these Gals reminiscing about ME in Song and Poetry? Their output generally begins with:
"AH GOT DA BLUES!" -they then cut to the MEAT: (starting, gently:)
"HE BROKE MAH HEART, the Buick (auto) won't start - outta gas! - that frickin' DAVE owes me serious money!?" -then? -just to nail my sad ass to the wall, along comes a full description-WANTED POSTER: "WANTED! -DEAD, absolutely Dead or WITH MONEY!" -poster, on the inter-net/remember we are talkin bout gal-songwriters? The WANTED POSTER description goes on: "HIS EYES were blue. He moved South to escape the hue (and cry) of my Spanish moss!"
-I'm paranoid at every frickin airport!!?
It gets worse:
(on the WANTED POSTER) "JUST TELL HIM I love him? Just give me back dat $20 dat I had stashed in da pick-up truck!?" -which, mostly, I recall - in generality? - is UN-true! And what ya gonna do with a $5 bill? Donate it to ST. MERCY (hospital), give it to the NEEDY?... ROMEO ain't bleeding, but maybe JULIET needs a kiss?


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Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ "Only the Lonely."

Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ "Only the Lonely."


Only the lonely will buy your old clothes? Only the Lonely will - if need arise? - kill your enemies? Only the lonely will skip, skate and slide? -perhaps not even knowing they ARE lonely; only knowing that - by your side? - you  fill da vacuum in their void?

Only the Lonely, thru thick and thin; will win your WARS; dat BODY COUNT? - and deserve your love? Without them, Peace will never come; and, SENSE - like da Milky Way? - will resolve to be apparent, yet float away?

Only da Lonely, LEPERS all, crystallize the sinew of your own Soul? Only the Lonely: JEEZ! -They ALL left town! Maybe tomorrow? Maybe today? -complain-complain; your mind-City in ruins/your gal's got da POX; and the whole Country, FALLEN, like U and Me, to a lonely ground?

BUT ONLY da Lonely, get to be "quietly" cool? Only the lonely, understand da mis-understood? And only the Lonely, can raise  dat FAME; amongst angels, kids, Saints and despair; understanding, some day? -we must do it again?
-Only the Lonely; only the lonely; only da Lonely...


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Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ "Shanghai Anna!

Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ Shanghai Anna!


BABE! Babe! I bought some eggs, I bought some of those fat Italian sausages, I wanted to RELAX, so I "advanced to GO" and went to the PARRUCHIERE, hair Salon: Anna (Chinese gal) and got an "economy" sized haircut?... I'M pretty much a VIKING; I say to ANNA: "OK. EASY on the SIDES/ leave da QUIFF (frontal hair) alone? -She smilingly acquiesces. 45 minutes later, I look like like an EXTRA - movie-actor -  in a Honk Kong-BEE-movie!
....This woman, Shanghai Anna? .... I love her!!!...:)

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Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ DON'T forget WINONA!!!...

Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/  "Don't forget WINONA!"...


...The only woman I ever loved (Girls? -fill in blank space:) ................................. struck me as "cheerful"; as a prelude to her acquiring a SHOTGUN.
Apparently, I live close to DEALLY PLAZA (Houston Texas); the bullets keep flying: Enough to drive a man to drink!
Ghosts and haunting usually come with over-head white sheets and Lott's "WHOOOS!!!"
Not mine.
.....On highway, ROUTE 66, from Chicago to L.A., winding 2,000 miles away? -OKLAHOMA CITY, looking mighty pretty? -I?m BUSTED! -WINONA shows up in a "vecchio" Pontiac 7 and NOW - apparently? - my life is forfeit!
BOYS!!! -DO NOT forget Winona; cause Winona won't forget YOU!...

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Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ "Broke & Busted!, No. 7...

Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ Broke & Busted, No. 7!


Broke & busted on a Saturday nite? GALS always save some Ducats for Sunday, that's - perhaps? - why they are loved? And, come Sunday, they always LOOK so fresh?... Men? -they look like old fish!?

Broke & busted on a Saturday nite, full of venom, full of jealous spite? -Business, WAR, football, politics? -Do these brats know the meaning of it all?: GRAFFITI! -sooo wasted on the Classic-hunter-gatherer; did she catch a glance of his ancient sword?

Broke & busted, busted and broke. It's only Time - as we know it? - that cuts the throat of our collective longing? And, there's "the rub!" -which leaves U with idle hands.


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Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/lord borgo/ THE BALCONY...

Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/lord Borgo/  "The Balcony"...

On da balcony above me? -Juanita.
On da balcony above? There she sits.
On da balcony, above me; she sings:
"Quando amore?"
On the balcony, above my head;
I'm in love.

On the balcony, above, I heard her
CRY;
her Padre wish to marry HER -
Il local Capitano!!!

On the balcony, I heard her cry
in despair: fights-fists, rows and crowds;
Juanita threw herself
off her balcony

On the balcony, I sit quite alone?
And gaze at the ground below
where she fell; and I promise
Juanita's love, that I TOO
will be true; from the balcony,
from da balcony, from da
balcony, JUANITA...I love U.


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Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ NIAGARA!!!

Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/lord Borgo/ ..."NIAGARA!

Chicken? Dis side of a harvest moon?  -all da kids are Chicken; kindergarten till college-wed; and even then,, the HONEYMOON: Niagara Falls? HEAR! Hear da death knell-bell-toll; MARILYN MONROE walks happily to her doom.

FEAR, deep-fried and sunny-side UP, crispy basmati rice which...whiskers the moment: da big 1, 2 , 3! -I love U. I fucked U. Don't call me! And No. 4. If I see U again? -then, don't see ME.

Chicken, this side of a Harvest Moon; and before we meet, wishing it cannot be too soon? NIAGARA FALLS, flows, and all the secrets that it knows.


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SPECTRE-LOVE: 12 BAR(s) Blues...:)

SPECTRE-LOVE: 12 BAR(s) Blues...


...Don't bring me down
Don't be my clown?
Don't go to town
on the emotional-dynamic
of your Spectre-love?

Don't say it's round
when U'er sooo square?
It's all the world;
when U feel dat U'er not there?

Don't kiss my lips
Cold as Death?
Don't bring me down:
I wish your heart rest!?

Don't bring me down
Don't be such a clown?
Don't go to town;
on the emotional-dynamic
of your spectre-love?

Don't go downtown, babee
on the emotional-dynamic
of  your spectre-love...



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Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ DA TERROR DAT WE KNOW!?

Our Man i n Europe/dave delacroix// DA TERROR DAT WE KNOW!


Why ask? Why do? Why think? -The streets U walk are filled with strife?
Why kiss? Why love? And why do I cup your breast in my hand? -A sinew, of forgetting?
Why PULSE, why heartbeat, why fuck? -JOY'S grape-ejaculates? -a
residual of a beginning
where sounds, music, groans and chants
come before the words: "I love U?"...ans all the terror
dat WE know.


(There are TWO other verses. I think I gave dem to Isabella. She now resides in NAPOLI.)


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Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ "...The LAST days...of Freddie da Fly!"

Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/  "...The LAST days of Freddie da Fly!"


...Last days of Freddie.? Played a Fender Telecaster (guitar), wore a two-tone/Emerald suit and SHOES: "Brothel Creepers", pale pink and pale blue? LAST DAYS of Freddie da Fly? -Linked his Bacon, DEEP FRIED/onions, eggs-sunny-side up? and kept an Islinglton "town" apartment? And, besides,  this side of COSHER? his mom owned a bar on the Holloway Road?  -she? Vecchio, flamboyant, over-did da NERO mascara? And was never known, to be shown at COURT, or in public, without BOA-tinsel? A product of RODEAN (Girl's school); she's NOW "70's", if she's a day? But she couldn't SAVE "Freddie da Fly"/ -/her son who played a blond, Fender Telecaster guitar? -He was GOOD. Maybe da best!? But he zapped out ON life.  His epitaph?
: JUST "DO IT!!!"
40 years later? -I still wanna kick his Ass!...?


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Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ NO GARLIC!!!

Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ NO GARLIC!!!


NO garlic at da house! No garlic, piccolini Cucina! No garlic: no medicino! No garlic at da Casa!... Here; in PIACENZA, Emilia Romagna, Italia!
"Pleasantville", as it was named by the ROMANS in 50 B.C. sits on a slope-hill-thingy over looking the river PO (Po? -don't ask). At the HOTEL DAVE we were doing some modest renovations; dug up a bronze plate, plaque-thingy, probably 2,000 years old?  It was Aramaic-Latin, bad graffiti, but like a mirror of today, it said the same: "In this house of Emeritus - It's Wednesday - NO garlic! - kitchen barren! Everyone is sick, and we hate DAVE LETTERMAN!"...


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Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ "FIVE and DIME!"

Our Mn in Europe/dave delacroix/ "FIVE and DIME!"


... !Ah met mah million dollar babee at dah "5 and dime". I met a Summer's breeze and: JEEZE-LOUISE!? -I calld her mine? I met YOU in a coal mine (fortunately, they served beer); our faces, black wth experience: we jumped and jived!
...Met mah million dollar babee at dah Five and Wine; till this day; I gotta think twice!!!
(Whadaya expect for under a quarter?)


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Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ "Domani!"

Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ "Domani!"


TOMORROW? -Don't tell me how poor I'll be? And DO not tell me how things ARE, or tomorrow; how they will fail?
(There's a lotta twist-and-shout here, folks?) -in THIS, our today?

Tomorrow? (3 syllables); Agamemnon wishing, at the fall of Troy? Ulysses, on a one way cruise!? Caesar Julii, stabbed to death on the Senate floor; Napoleon at Waterloo: Hitler or Stalin at Conscience's  door!? -the vicissitudes of time laid bare? -and ME - full knowing? -  the gal I cannot meet? - VENUS beguiles with all our yesterdays.

Tomorrow? How many Rock stars will it take to clean a window? -THREE: One to do dah cleaning (of dah glass...), One to hold the frivckin' step ladder... and one to fix/serve dah brews!  (S'posing No. 3's got some cash!?)
Domani!!!!...:)


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Our man in europe /dave delacroix/ THE TERROR dat we know,

Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/LORD BORGO/  "The TERROR dat we know..."


WHY ask? Why do? Why think? -The streets ya walk are filled with strife!
Why kiss? Why Love? And WHY do I cup your breast in my hand? -A sinew  of forgetting?
Why PULSE, why heartbeat, why fuck? -Joy's grape-ejaculates! a residual of a beginning
where sounds, music, groans and chants come before the words:
"I LOVE U!
....and all the terror dat we know.

Love? Peace? Where does it begin? THIS SIDE OF MAYBE!? (So shoot me-ah! An adopted Child, a new-born Saint or a REAL WILD CHILD; go tell? Why ask? Why do? It butterflies in your pedestrian room! And still? Why kiss? Why Love, if all the getting is the getting of lust? Why PULSE? Why heartbeat? Why fuck? -Joy's grape ejaculates; that "dang" eternal residual of a beginning..where sounds, MUSIC, groans and chants, come before the words: "I LOVE U!":

....and all the terror dat we know.



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Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ "DA CANDLE STICK!"

Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/  "DA CANDLE STICK!


(Based on a scene from YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN by Mel Brooks-Gene Wilder/SUBTITLED:  "PUT da candlestick -back!"


"...Da Candle Stick."

"Honey?" (Me)  "PULL da foreskin back?"
"It'll work much better?"
"U think so?"
"On Wednesday?"
"..."SO!: (one syllable) "PUT
(U): "dah candlestick !?"
(4 syllables)
"BACK!!!?"


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Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ "JOOVIE!"

Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ "JOOVIE!"


JOOVIE - vechio-old Amico - showed up at the HOTEL DAVE/€65 per nite-big screen TV -via Campagnia, Piacenza? He stayed 2 days- 2 nites and sang me his Song!
(Ignoring the big screen TV)

"Dave!?"  sez Joovie: "I don't want a wife. I don't want some kids. I don't want your LIFE, so don't string me along? I don't want your business and I don't want your money, your power, or your strife (should U have either?) ? I don't want your "savoir-faire" and all your sad dreams/I not being involved! - And I don't want your dog and I don't want your cat; is it any wonder . DAVE!!! - I'm where I'm AT?"
(I started to say; "well, BRO, ALLURI!"
JOOVIE cut me off! - "DAVE!!!? I don't want your house; you can twist and shout!, and amah taking a'glug of your Italian Balsamic vinegar/hope U don't mind?/Any alcohol in dis stuff?...whilst I tell U all about..."
(And so it went for 2 days- 2 nites...)

Joovie (I think he's from Bulgaria) is now residing in Casablanca, Morocco, or a town near U....


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dave delacroix/our man in europe/ KIDS!...

Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ KIDS!...


All dah kids got lucky, ages 6 to 12! I should know? -I'm still twelve! My old dad asked me to hand out political pamphlets, increased my school-boy pocket money, I had a bicycle: Whad'I care who rules the World? -It takes a "Village" some folks say?

AMERICA is NO Country for Old Men. ITALIA, NO Country for the Young. As for dah Kids? GOOGLE'S all ya got.  Black, Morocco, Senegalese, Chinese; FEMALE?? -I wouldn't trade mah gig for a million bucks!.. Still?  I say; dah kids got lucky; male, female, black, yellow or white: New genius will arrive.

ALL dah kids got lucky. Thank God we're a little bit Stupid? -despite schooling, college, our genius comes with our learning? And ALL dah kids - who, now? - also HAVE kids...find their Steel.


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Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ "GREENSLEEVES"...

Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ "GREENSLEEVES"...


"...Alas, my love, to DO U wrong; I spent all of mah money at the BAR? (OK! -The damn Race-track!) I came close to making U a million-aire; so close, yet so far-away..?

Alas, my love, to DO U wrong, and a GALLIC CANZONE/song,  flows thru my bones: We're a "look-a-like!"  - It's in your nose, your chin, your mother's eyes! -Our CHILDREN, and dat unexpected BOUQUET! -some "bello guiorno"; some good days that  will never go away?...

Alas, my love, to DO NO wrong; I seek what U seek, U are not alone: GOD, perhaps, loves his crazy kids? -IL VITA ENIGMA TA!!!
Still? When da kids/OUR kids -are full and grown?/U and ME are quite old?
-We'll build us a house in the meadow.

 (SINGING:)  GREESLEEVES was my heart's desire?
Greensleeves was dah World at One!
Greensleeves, loves you and me.
Greensleeves, she is ALL to me;

And we'll build us a house in the meadow...



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