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Monday, July 27, 2015

Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ "ILLUMINATA DELLA LUNA."



Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ "Illuminata della Luna." (Light of the Moon)


PRIMA! (first)
Illuminata della Luna.
SECONDI!
Il passione, amore; doppa?
....And that's where everything
went South!
PREGNANT.

Somehow DAD found out.
Uncanny?
MOM? -Estranged in the Bahamas
sent E-mail missiles.
Normal.
Fratelli/sorrelli went
positively Ballistic!
"Is he BLACK?"
"What if he were?" -U provoke.
"For god's sake!" -the family agreed,
"Don't tell Grandma!"
...So nobody does.

At the Christening,
held
at the Basilica of the Blessed Virgin
in Modica, Sicily,
everyone is AMAZED:

The kid is half Chinese,
named LUNA,
son of a ships Cook outta Catania!
It's a disaster...

"Where's the Pappa at?" -she gets quizzed.
"Ah dunno.." she responds. "Hong Kong?"
Yet TWO of her siblings
begin lessons in MANDARIN

...with an eye to the future.



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Monday, July 20, 2015

Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ "Lauren Bacall."


Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ "Lauren Bacall."


Lauren Bacall! Lauren Bacall!
She was a sweet-sad-tomato
and her tears they flowed like wine:

"To Have and Have Not"?
"Da Big Sleep!"
Lauren Bacall should'a SHOWED UP
in Da "Maltese Falcon";
Humphrey Bogart & Crew:
Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet:
Should' a shown-up in
"CASABLANCA"!!! "Mein Gott!"

Lauren Bacall! Lauren Bacall!
She was a sweet, sad tomato
and her tears they flowed like wine?

She could'a sang: Johnny Rivers
(DID) Hoagy Carmichael,
George Gerswhin,
Stephen Sondheim;
...so da Hollywood story goes?

Lauren had the last laugh:

"Sam (Spade)? U know how to whistle,
don't ya?...Ya just put ya lips together
and blow..."

Lauren Bacall! Lauren Bacall!
She was the SWEETEST tomato
and her tears they flowed
like wine...:)


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Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ THE SUNDOWNERS: "Da Honeymooners."


Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ THE SUNDOWNERS: "Da Honeymooners."


Albergo. albergo, Sicilian, hot summer nite;
new kids on the block:
FIRST FLIGHT
Whoa! What Promise! What earthly delights!?

SHE insists he sit, whilst pee-ing on the toilet
and NO SEX...without a condom?

O' where is the MAN that U once were?

Later: "TO DA MOO...MOON, ALICE!!!"


...Beer: €10.00
Vino, Box: €1.50
Eggs: €1.50
Bacon: €3.50
Deodorant: €2.00...


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Friday, July 17, 2015

D-D-DETECTIVE, "Tobasco, my lovely..."



Dave Delacroix/Menu a'la Carte/Menu for Murder...


"Tabasco, my lovely..."


...It was just a'wanna dem days. "D & D" (Private-Dick)  eyed the dead cilantro, ailing twist bottle of Tabasco...in his dying, grumblin'  fridge-thingy - if da MAYO don't go bad -the damn "EL REFRIGERATOR",  like a bad ol' wife, don't need replacing? So he bagged the pan of yesterdays Cowboy coffee (singing tra-la-la!) and launched it on the office Callo-Gaz. THEN! Sirens! GUN SHOTS! -down, outside on da strada on a luckless Los Angeles boulevard, christened "HOPE". At which point - universal wisdom? - When a gun battle erupts...NEVER stand by a window/fenestra!?
D & D (One eyed detective Agency) actually DID?

...Clearly; a FAILED bank job. Boy/girl team, both wearing McDonald's clown masks (Boy/girl? -one of dem had tits?), the boy: "Denis da Menace", according to his "Biblical" F.B.I. file, had ran out of Testaments. The Cops - in bags - plus ONE "smoothie", wearing a Fedora, but clearly not in charge/shooting at any thing in motion, including the No. 35 MALIBU bus, haphazardly NAILED Denis da Menace/ SWISS-CHEESE sure and true... But DENISE (da one with tits?) skipped and found her way into a nearby "brownstone", opted NOT to use the elevator, rapidly ascended a staircase, BASHED into "D & D" detective Agy, threw her AK-47 on the sad, welcome mat, fell to her knees, exclaiming, amidst stolen banknote confetti, and quite forgetting she was still wearing her Ronald McDonald clown mask: "D & D! My saviour! A'mah MISS-Understood!?..."

..."D & D" -with a window on the World/innocent bystanders SLAIN down there on HOPE street, coaxed her to the D & D "love-seat".
"Relax, Sweetie-pie." -he coo-ed. "Drink this?"
"What is it?"
"Cafe Mexicali!"
"Wicked!"
She gulped, then gagged, then sank to da floor.

D & D - who spoke BRAIL - indicated -thru the office window to the confused COPS below; he'd cooked their Bird.

After DENISE was suitably beaten to shit, then cuffed and parked in an Ambulance, D & D grew weary of the cops - in bags - slugging the Office's complimentary Jack Daniels, kicked em' out, surmising; yesterdays coffee with dead cilantro, Jack Daniels plus galoshes of Tabasco, 'Cafe Mexicali!' ...ain't no way to start your day. And, as the Ambulance - 'avec' Denise - siren-ed away: (A sigh:) "Farewell, my Sweet!", and  decided  a "J.D." was just what the Doctor ordered!  

Couevo-Rancheros, tamales, red beans and rice, later, with Sweet Louise at da BAD-TUXEDO dinner, over on Wilshire Blvd, would come later.

Tabasco, my Lovely?




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Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ The Sundowners: "The UN-forgetting."



Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/The Sundowners: "The UN-Forgetting"...


The rain
The stoop, sitting;
The YOU
The forgiveness?

The beer/vino
The song
challenge the Gods!?

Is THE mystery
"crystallized"
that dwells
in Antica Romana?

And the ghosts
that circle
-like swallows
in the sky?
VICTORS or victimized,
martyrs or Mummers?

And the love U give
the fornication
the despair,
the UN-forgetting
of ALL U knew?
Is YOUR "true", mine too?

You're Past was short
You're Future, LONG;
just wotchagonna-do?

...It's just the Rain,
the stoop,
the Sadness, that UN-living,
the "thing"
that's left of U.



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