Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix: "Miles to Babylon."

Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix: "Miles to Babylon."


...Miles to Babylon? East or West?
By candle light?
-Three score, and ten!

THIS Cavalier, with his sword
soaked
in Life, Love, Death and Taxes;
who bloodied yesterday's Tomorrow
with better than a sad Today?

Sing out Calliope! HOMER!
Read your verse! Arise! Arise!
SOUL, quick-whip! -Or Cassandra,
your Curse!
...And bird's wings
rise noiselessly into the sky.

Miles to Babylon? South or North?
By candle light?
(Jack-be-nimble!)
Labia, Penis, Vagina;
GODS of Conception?
Is it a Boy or a Girl? And
who thrusts Who?
-Nobody loves U without no shoes...

Cassandra? -Your VIM,
sitting at needle-work
whilst Trojan walls fall within
to crumble your immortal soul?

Arise! Arise! -Me-boys!
Barbarians at the gate!
Eyes to eyes,
knees to knees
(shaking!).

...How many miles to Babylon?
Three score and ten!
Can I get there by candle light?
Yes, my friend. And back again.



c 2015/dave delacroix/jan 10/piacenza-italia.