Our Man in Europe/dave delcroix/ALL AROUND MY HAT! -x3

Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ "All around my Hat, x3"



(Dedicato: Dayton Emerson)1


ALL AROUND my hat, every Jazz nite? With the possibility of Love, Hate, getting Arrested, Alcoholic poisoning; all...around my Hat?

ALL AROUND my Hat; a seizure, frickin' LIFE, blood, OLD wounds, a new dynamic or Public dis grace? (Les Enfant Terrible!)

ALL AROUND, all around (my Hat) my HAT, A GHOST FROM THE PAST, A FRESH NEW FACE,, A profit, BUT MOSTLY, DEEP IN DEPT, AS i COUNT THE COST OF a world; all around my Hat, in turmoil?
And WHO, what GOD, usurps MY meagre banquet!? And AS for the dead; perhaps, the grateful dead who CHANCE-LULLABY the WORLD to some PEACE, or, as an aftermath, sing me to sleep, to dream?

All around my Hat. People are polite. All around my Hat. The Devil, in his disguise? All around my Hat; my Hat, I cast dispersions  into the sea? (JEEZE!)

ALL AROUND my hat, every Jazz nite, with the possibility of Love, Hate, ot getting arrested by BAMBINOS with a Badge and a Gun?.... All around my Hat, but THIS Hat, till I die, MY FRICKIN' HAT: I wear with Pride...... "O sole Mio!" U BETCHA'!!!


2)   A trick of the Light.


In the dark corner of a Cavernous taverna, Siciliano vino and beer, some candles, her FACE alit (boys at the bar noticed) by her Cellphone then lighted STILL, a response, brief dialogue, then a GLOOM pervaded, her blue eyes turned to black, her inner sorrow ghastly bloomed?... I guess she talked to  her paramour, the one who got her pregnant...and who said I would, or not,  be true?....Did I mention that this Cavernous taverna was arrayed and Candle-lit? Did I suggest the damp of Ages from ancient Roman times?  All-while, the gal on the Cellphone, from a potential "message of Love", then, in turn, a rejection, under the light there was, which glistened her face from blanche to crimson; and, mysterious, how the light plays, brightens, darkens, flickers; and sometimes, under the nose of YOUR own family, her gentleness turned to livid rage?
So WHO makes the Wine, and who writes the Page that takes us on that  road to dusty death?


3) The Strong.


"ONLY KISS the strong!" -she said; Without VOWS, without WOWS, no WHISTLE!; no WONDER in the after-math of Rockin' & rollin?? (Carlotta says:) "Life's too short to dance with ugly guys?
In L.A., Miss VITA: "Life's too short to fuck ANYBODY; if they don't got a beach house in Malibu!?"
"A Mansion in the HAMPTONS," says Lucrezia, "or NOT at all!"
-I had my warning, so I lied....(Sciacca-Sicily)....and got laid. All three.




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