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Sunday, January 29, 2017

Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ "Le Grande Illusion."



Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ "Le Grande Illusione."


(dedicato: Donald Trump)


NOBODY got COOL. Those movies U used to whine about (Jonathan Livingston Seagul?) Bunch   of BIRDS, twittering: "Yo Everyone! Let's be COOL!" Nobody IS Cool., this side of Memory, or a Clockword Orange? That leather, studded jacket U wore at a  "Clash" mosh-pit, hanging on your mental shelf; that Slogan: Immigrants Welcome, don't mean crappola until  they move into your appartment and the sanitary situation goes Tropic of Cancer, kids barfing on da Bohkara? And as for Inscence sticks? Got Wheels? Out in the Country, far from the madding crowd? Got a few bucks?

It's always tough in Heaven. Queues and queues and queues. And the NOT so Evil get to check your Punk Rock Ticket and ask U about your Views? Worse than USA Immigration, but better than Third World, where U gotta BRIBE them to visit and almost beg to get out of there again?

Funny ol' World; Nobody got cool. Picture Postcard. Seminale. China-man bought my Watch. Sold my FERRONHGN (Penis/ass cover) to an Irish man who had a Song. YO! I sold my pants to an Irish Man. A man who had a Song? No more War, folks living in Peace, hating, tolerating, trading with their neighbours, as people do? Some Gal breaks out, marries outta State, outta faith? But bend and be BOLD, Old World...and for the New? Your Tomorrow?  Leastways? Attempt to be Cool?

Funny ol' World? No Illusions! And Nobody got COOL. Or was? Nobody, Jeeze: jes't livin' between love and hate. Ducking Governments, Inter-ballistic, Russians, Chinese, Europeans, Americans; poor bastards in-between STUFF; definitely NOT getting "Hubba-hubba!", but (why should they?) not giving a CRAP....Yours, mine, and the devil of the POWER that we covet?

Nobody got COOL. HISTORY. The Grand Illusion. So Suck On It!....


c2017/davedelacroix/LORD BORGO, Sciacca-Sicily.








Our man in Europe/dave delacroix/ "Caligerio-Sciacca."



Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ "Calagerio-Sciacca."



(dedicato: Caligerio, Vittorio-Emanuel Bar Restaurant)



..........Sugar.? Nope. There's some Prosciutto, Salami, vino Terra Sicilian. There's GRIT; Sicilian Grit. There's THE LEOPARD, movie or book? There's 2,000 years of History but the Siciliani kept their FAITH: "Family": Norman, Arab, Greek, Roman, Carthaginian. Family is important. Outside of "family"; may the Gods be with U!?


(Meantime?)


It's always ricochet, when U are in love. I've known such,  and at least FIVE Gals called Celeste (and Eleanora) "....And Calergerios, them god damn Prosperos/fuck blockers! -  - JEEZE! - , too many times.?
Big problem;  do I fuck your (Caligerio)  disappointed Sisters? And Bella Eleanora? (YO BRO!)  Or does Bella Donna, Calagerios Mistress spread her legs, willingly? Or does your  WIFE , the one in the "slinky" (RIVE GAUCHE) fuck me.?.....! And with songs to damn all travellers with an Open Heart; Traveller, who pass this way, Love, Death; and when or where the Spartans HELD THEIR GROUND?
In Los Angeles town... in the home of the brave.... and the land of the free, GO
Sugary, open heart, valley of da dolls, Sugary, and open heart..and sickly sweet , and with no giro? Rock & Roll!   It would NOT be a question, sweet Calergerio of who... fucks who, ?....but WHO the people we would wish to be? Fucking, perhaps, is an after-thought, except ...on Saturday night, and for the moment, Sugary, Open Heart: Eleanora: First time I saw Ya!!!!...Yay! -what shall I do with  my OWN baggage, never-mind Yours, changing trains, Berlin to Paris?...


(answers on a postcard)



c2017,davedelacroix, LORD BORGO, Sciacca-Sicily.

Thursday, January 26, 2017


Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ "Picking up the pieces."


CHINA, Russia, America too. War Games in Syria, Afghanistan. Displaced "civilization", displaced villages, and towns, in the name of ALLAH, that sad godless clown? Weapons of IRON, weapons of steel. Teenagers with fire, who never got laid? Teenagers, MARTYRS who never got to be "Cool"; no body bags for these Aprils' fools? Kick'em in a ditch, sprinkle over some desert sand, and as for their Mothers who wail, picking up the pieces?  Their Fathers, IDIOTS, perhaps, not every one, some day, will drive a Caravansarai...across their Sons unmarked grave?
China, Russia, Big-time AMERICA: War-games; why do U do what U do... for ALL those dumb kids who never got to be Cool?

c2017/davedelacroix/LORD BORGO/sciacca-sicilia.

Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ "This Train!"



Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ "This Train!"


(dedicato: Stephan and Nando)


...This train
don't carry no passengers;
this train.
This train
don't carry no passengers
this train?
This train
don't carry no passengers:
but it it might take U
to the OTHER side?
This train
don't carry no passengers;
this train.

(Dack-dack-dack!)


This train
don't need your sympathy,
this train.
This train
don't need your sympathy
this train?
This train
don't need your sympathy,
but it might
(just might?)
get U TO the other side?
This train
this traIN
THIS TRAIN, this train.

A well-a, well-a, well-a WELL!.....:)


c2017,davedelacroix/LORD BORGO, sciacca, sicily.

Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ "Da Big Kahunana!"

Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ ""da BIG Kahunnnaaa!!!!!"

Well, (well?) I GOT to WRITE da Big Kahunna! I Got to WRITE that famous GIG. I Got to write your Mamma's "Good-looking", and I framed it ALL,  in a pot with a lid? I got ya Mamma, Pappa, too. Sister Mary, brother Derek too?I got your WRITE, East of Eden, I got your "Cheri", got dat one too? Don't ask me why, don't ask meeeeeeeeee.....how come I come THRU? I got to WRITE da Big Kahunna, Sista Sylvia too.
I got to DREAM with ya Mamma, fair, I got to dream with your DAUGHTERS so fair? I got to Dream with your Brothers, true; and WE all got STORIES all about UUUUUUUUU!!!! Well, I got to write the BIG KAHUNNA, gotta write dat date song; POOR BASTard, Senor Critic, waiting in the Wings in a  World that won't ( suffer the multitudes!) wait that long? -singing: Doopie-doo, everything un-gained? Dreaming? But not about U?
(Switch "dream" to "SLEEP", perhaps?)
WELL I gotta sing bout Yesterday? And I gotta sing-song bout TOMORROW? Me an' Julio, Carolina, Guiseppi, Leonardo, Antonino, Grazia,  blues, city or beach, KISSES and KISSES!....Who can peel the dicohotmy of a family? like a rotting fruit in Spring?... Grazia, Antonnio,  Carloine:  we wither, we thrive, and who are YOU? so please don't kill our Tomorrow?


c2017.davedelacroix, LORD BORGO, sciacca,sicily.



c2017,davedelacroix,LORD BORGO, sciacca,sicily.

Friday, January 20, 2017

Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ "HAFIZ": ( "Early Writings of HAFIZ; Persian Poet.; Poems 1 to 5."



Our Man in Europe/dave Delacroix/ HAFIZ: "Early Writings of HAFIZ, Persian Poet (Pre  Muslim), Poems 1 to 5."


(Dedicato: Benhrang and Arash, my Iranian Family.)


HAFIZ!!!!!


1) "I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy!

I'm a Yankee doodle Dandee
in the ol' town of Shiraz
INA is my leetle Babee;
I'll take down shopping
to the Bazaar!...


2) Ol' Gal named Sal.


I gotta ol' gal
her name is SAL,
16 miles to Babylon;
the candle is low
but my feet with GO
to Sal, my Gal
in Babylon...
How long to Babylon?
Three candles,
no longer;
and WE
will be there
and back..again.
I gotta ol' Gal
her name is Sal;
16 miles to Babylon.


3) The Burning Bush


Oh blow da Man down
Brother, blow
da Man DOWN;
I've been to Damascus
Oh blow the Man down!

I wake up on Monday,
Friday, I go to sleep, on Saturday
I whisper your name
and on Sunday
in my dreams
I'll keep?

Oh blow da Man down,
Brother! Yo blow
da Man down;
I've been to Mecca!
Oh blow the man down.


4) Aleppo on a Sunday

Aleppo on a Sunday
what DO the wise men do?
Sit in conference
drinking coffee
like ALL the World is done?
Old Men? Young Men?
GREY Men?
What DO U think U do?
Aleppo on a Sunday
and where do WE kids play?
Amongst the bombs, the SHRAPNEL
that U call words?


5)Festa! Festa! Festa!

fESTA! fESTA! Festa!
Mamma wears her BANGLES!
Pappa looks so cool!
I get to see my Uncles
my Aunts and cousins too?
We get to eat
all those precious treats
that involve our sacred twine
and everything
and everyone, sings;
HAFIZ
we struggle, we fight...for love:
your rhymes!....:)



c2017,davedelacroix.for my Persian friends, with Pride.

Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ "Manny Q!"



Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ "Manny Q!" (A troubladour song, translated from archaic French. c. 1445)


"....(Guitar!) See mah breath
in da room
sweet Mary
ee my View
all YOUR "SWOON",
don't despair
WE, "Manny Q";
under da Moon.

Don't kiss me at all?
too early.
And
if Your DAUGHTERS fall
under my Spell,
in your floral Crown,
U SEE, all?

Blood, veins
an Insurance card
waving surrender?
VOTE BACHANNALIA!

See my BREATH
cold-cold room;
under surrender?
Guitar. Guitar. Guitar...
but don't hesitate
less I sing again,
an Accordian
and a  Manny Q?

Sing OUT for the Angels
devils and Crew!
Sings out for the FRIENDS
that once...U knew?
(Guitar) Sing my breath. I am doomed. I am doomed.
My cold breath gildes
the lobes of your ears.



c2017/davedelacroix/LORD BORGO, Sciacca, Sicily.

Wednesday, January 18, 2017

Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ DANG!



Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ DANG!


(dedicato: Alpen...in Turkey)



DANG! Got the double BAR ring electric heater in ORGASM mode but it's acting like a VIRGIN on the Fourth of July (make sense?). The OLDE/vecchio Refrigerator, finally, decides to pull all its punches, GROANS, does LASER beam noises whilst all my "Cool" stick-on Magnets THWANG to da floor?
No NEED to chill the Vino or beer, my breath, visible, in the January cheer? And  INSIDE my Sicilian house?...Sweet January; Not even the Local Babooma Gal  (1-800-I keep U warm fucker!) could THRILL me with  excitement on this, a Saturday Nite/sunday morning; out of English Priggishness.  JEEZE! I don't wanna GAL! I only wanna pray to da GAWDS!!!
MARS! Send me your molten darts!
POSEIDON! An emerald curve wave, full of warmth?
Sirocco, late August, your hot leaden veil! Usurp the skin-pores of the common man? a.k.a.:
"Buddy can U spare a Dime?"
yET,
OUTSIDE: Stranieri.
Outside, Mexican kids tryin' to get into TEXAS? Swimming the Rio Grande?
Boat People, Grecia, Pozzalo-Sicily?
Who will COMFORT!? And Outside, East Euroes, lookin' for the MOTHER-LODE that OUR Grand Parents forged...and won?
OLD NEW YORK: "The Streets are paved with GOLD, GOLD, GOLD! Go West young Man! Go SEEK! A Traveller or, a Refugee?....
DANG! Double heater packed up! But under a roof wrapped in a warm blanklet, with some eggs, bread, in the aging Refrigerator; perhaps I can face a Conscientious Tomorrow?
(BRRRRRRRRR!!!!!)


2017/davedelacroix/our man in europe.,winter, sciaca, sicily.


Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ "JACKIE-BLUE!"....1 to....7


Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ "Jackie.Blue!"...1 to....7


1) Don't walk away Renee

Don't walk away Renee, across the vast Schoolyard? Good at Games! Theatre crew! An apple for the Teacher? And that LOOK of Love U cannot disguise?
Don't walk away Renee, apple/robust, brunette/pantie-pumps, knee high, black stockings, Kapitano of the "Rounders" team, Artist, Biology-class? And NO sunshine when U-re gone, HOME, to do your Homework? Don't walk away Renee; don't ever leave that Schoolyard Cosmic ray... that leaves, WE Kids, anguished in yearning. Someone suggested, half/heartedly, a game of Cricket, or a get together at the Youth Club, Saturday Night>. ..Don-T walk away. Or, least don-t forget...to come back, soon, on your joyful day.


2)  Fashionista Cross-hairs.

Crossroads, cross-lined, cross-eyed, cross-Gods, cross-thieves and ALL the paradox that determines; that CASTS the Iron, that IGNITES the "Pistole" of sublime Mercury; drugs, alcohol, a wistful cigarette up against BITCH-Non Smoker, financial tyranny, Yuncle Sam - male format? - MR JONES! : No smokeroni! (Gets his suits from CIA-Porta-San, Langley, Virginia!)
Whassit all-bout_
MIO? I get my Rags from the Salvation Army, my shirts from SEVERAL "Goodwill" outlets and my "UN-mention-ables"; my gal SUZIE goes to some Box Superstore called TARGET. In  TRUMP AMERICA...it's hard to fart with discretion.


3)  Anacreon, in heaven; we raise our glass to thee!


...I NEVER knew of any kind of IDIOCY that couldn't be cured by a bottle of Whisky, Bourbon, or Calvados? The IDIOTS (U know a few?) don't actually get any brighter but they DO become less or more "animated" which makes the suckers, the Idiots, less dull?... There's a shorter way of expressing this concept: "Whisky'll make a Blind Man...sing da Blues!"... GOD FORBID...
.....but if U go "Busking" on the Street.....
having dissuaded the usual, Klingon-riff-Raff from interfering with your busking-dynamic (piss on their shoes!);
And Whisky enhanced,
act drunk,
miss a chord or two,
do some acrobatics,
STRUM (Guitar?),
then appear to have fallen asleep: and the MONEY rolls in!....
I've done it a 1,000 times.
But singing, ye olde "Sounds of Silence"? FORGEDABOUTIT! Bloody Palookaville! Singing "Claudia gave it UP on a Saturday Nite!"? -the audience will get downright Spiritual, at which point, U open a Bank Account.... Back to the IDIOTS? These Dostoyevskies can only DROOL, rain or shine, akimbo-Cossack, on the sidewalk of their Minds, hands OUT, ever dreaming...of that Whisky so far away?
OH! Anacreon, in Heaven! We raise our glass to thee!!!!!
What are talking about> The IDIOT....
Clearly, I-m InsaNE.

4)  Sweet Lenore

....If ONLY God (dat GUY!)
wasn't so God-less, no Division,
no PUBLIC discussion,
no BANNER for WAR,
no Control, no
"I'll love U for evermore!";
Then, sweet Lenore,
I could wish for U again:
Like a song, a canzone,
an Irish: "Tu Roo-lie.Lay!"
to sway this sad ol' World
on an Even-keel.


5)  The Fly

...I don't know how it began? Something inside told me I didn't have long to live so I would take it in my stride, a Night, a day, for Another? -Buzzing around but never for long, as long as I didn't have that kind of stamina which emboldens SOME bugs, birds and diverse creatures for long endeavours; I flit and I flit? The main thing was to find a Home, albeit a territory, a space within-which I could out ride the ordained parameters of my existence. Love and Sex BARELY entered into it but , ONCE, a hazy afternoon, after lunching on a host's dead skin and other domestic detritus, I belched and farted, simultaneously, happy to witness Cockroaches running for cover with the breeze, and her name was "Figlia". We Enjoined, then she secreted 10,000 maggots in the nearest dumpster though, in all honesty, I never visited my spawn, fearing inherent cannibalism. After-all? -I?d already eaten my Mother's left foot. My BROTHERS!? -They de-voweled the rest! Total PONGO! But then, "C'est la Vie, no?" A matter of taste: ask ANY fly? Addiction, the word, covets, but doesn't cover the hard-wire-drive of a species heart?....And U are catching me, relaxed, over a Cognac, in the jet stream of an Havana Cigar. I bug my Human host, constantly, for his dead skin, where-as his New skin, I use for my toilet, to await its ripening, and ALL as time goes by? My existence is Decisive in that I irritate ALL whom I encounter until, a life cut short, in the scissored mandibles of the House Spider who  - no doubt? - has her own story to tell?
Prior to my demise, I'd often heard that Golden expression: "...He/she/it ....wouldn't hurt a fly!"
-But it's not true. Neither do I know...how it ALL began?


6)  In da Beat of da Nite

WILLARD B. Johannsen the 111, *White boy, outta Boston, attitude, on a Scolarship( fresh out of Greenville, North Carolina, car in-hock, waylaid at da DEPOT was arrested on "Suspicion" (at da DEPOT) by Deputy Sheriff Luther Washington for being a "God-damn-NON-black-nigger!" whilst waiting for the Stream liner, 5-oh-4 , North to Windy City (Chicago?).... DONE DEAL!? The local "Martin-Luther" had just bi'a /politically, "Crucified", backside of WALGREENS, off Django & Main (Streets) at the ALL-NITE KEBAB diner and had "identified" poor ol' Willard as: "Transient/cruisin' da Locale!" -under Blue Law.... Assisted by half-Nelson/wrestling hold'em, plus Police Baton pounding by Deputy-Sheriff Levine W. Van Buren, Johannesen's statement: "FUCK U!!!!" was taken down, the dynamics of the Case elucidated, Cell accommodation provided/awaiting Trial, all nice and tidy..... I guess U had to be there?....Paramedics on Call, late in arriving.
Could-a bin in Missouri. Could-a bin in Kansas. Arkansas, ALABAMBAM /thank U Man!, Tennessee, don-t/cha go bleed on me...whilst Angels whoopee/doo down in Mississippi, a choir, an anthem, a Quincey Jones... in the Beat of the Night.


7)  SOUL-Kick!....

*Under Conscription........WHOOOO, OO Jackie/Blue!.....





c2017&davedelacroix&ourmanineurope..





our dude dee rudi...


Our Man In Rudi, dave Dela/Rudi, I gotta new blanket

I otta new RUDI.I gotta new fruiti, I gotta some Brewski, dat  on-t know before. I gotta some  ruitti. I gotta some groovy, somethin- U aint seen efore.....I aint seen before.BOOM/BOOM!

c017&davedelacrox,our man in Europe.


Tuesday, January 3, 2017

Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ "KOSHER: One to five!"



Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ "KOSHER: One to Five."



1) "Billy da Kid."

...I don't wanna go DOWN
like Lady "DI".
I don't wanna go down, like
Henry III (English King?)
I don't wanna go down
like J.F.K.;
and I never wanna go down
with U?

I DON'T wanna go down
like Anne Boleyn.
I don't wanna go down
breathin' HELIUM
(squeakin' like a Duck?)
I don't wanna go down
like Mrs Kai Kw an ChecK
(spell?) And I NEVER
wanna go down, like U

I never wanna go down,
(Whoops-a-daisy/forgot to fire
the Cannon!?) in VICTORY?
A trend, or latest Fashion,
LONESOME DUDE; Nobody'll do?
A "close-run-thing"; ALMOST,
-goin' down? (With U?)

I don't wanna go DOWN
Like "Lady DI"
And I NEVER, ever
want to go down, alas,
with U.

...KISS the World: "Sooo-long!"
Kiss MIO: "Amore!"
BIG HUGS, Bella,
to the Ragazzi?
And SO we sing our OWN
favourite Song?

I don't wanna GO, DOWN, East
of Eden and I DON'T wanna GO,
West of the Pecos? 'Cause?
Cause?...like BILLY da KID
it' "something that I did"?
...An I KNOW
I just gotta' Go Down?
I just gotta go down.....:)


2)  MISTRAL Wind.

Mistral, Amore, inverno, Sabatto, cold kiss, cold cheek, arrivederci, Mistral wind? Quando Amore? Corso, Vittorio-Emanuelle? Nite!!! Alleuri: Solare arrivee....?

Mistral WHISKY, Mistral Prom'essa; TITS, bums, shackled and chained in the HARD DRIVE of your DNA? There's NO kissing, only fucking - throw your Jewelry aside! - in the Mistral?

MISTRAL-BLOW-JOB, East of Eden; "Come stai?"
-Wantons?
-Soldiers?
-Giggilos?
-PUPPET-MAKERS?
On a Mistral wind...Hollywood yearns for your Captivity.



3) COLUMBUS CIRCLE.

"AHHHH!?" -bin STEWING, like a SPY in the COLD: Funny handshakes; Passwords, PINK Tut-Tus? Hairy-legged DANCERS swirling down GUGGENHEIM's Museum "slopes", to exit, then, getting MUGGED by ETHNICS (Lost Vikings?) in Central Park? And a "Quarterbacks' THROW to New York's Museum of MODERN ART where - u will observe - Modigliani (his masterpiece?) hangs next to the Museum toilets?
WHO (WHOOOOO?) If I cried out, would hear me...amongst the ancient Order of Greenwich Village Angels?
WALL STREET?
BROADWAY?
COLUMBUS CIRCLE?
(Spannish Harlem, oh soooo MOE picante?)

"AHHHH!" bin STEWIN', like a SPY, unsure of his Mission, in this cold, and this cold New York City Winter's morning, like a FOOL; all these things I feel are important, but just WHAT they could mean...to the innards of Sycophancy, EGO, Columbus Circle or paying the rent?
LETHARGY! MORPHINE! (Gimmie!): On the Guggenheim Slopes, INTRINSIC, dang CEREBAL!; it dosen't need a STEP LADDER/Art Lovers on Trampolines: Where does acknowledged Genius END?...
A mugging...in Central Park?



4) HAFIZ BLUES

...Babee, it's Cold outside; Muslims bombing Muslims, NO Allah Akbah, no COOL, but kissin' COLD? Babee, some MOTHER'S SON, lighting the fuse, to kill ME, to kill YOU; and I wonder,
Hafiz, are U turning in your grave?



5) Carrabineri Blues.

....I gotta' clean up Your mess. I get to pick up the Pieces: U fuck up!? - I gotta' SHOW UP! I DON'T got "No say"! Press Conference? Some Prick Politician. I wipe the blood smears off my Uniform....
I gotta RACE the Ancient streets? I gotta' deal with ALL the "fricks" that I meet, sometimes, alone, ON DA BEAT, no camourflage; I'm the Carribineri MAN, doin' the best I can, to get on UP, but mostly, feelin' down? U think this is a DANCE? -Take my BADGE for just a Day!...Carribieri Man; Veteran or "Rookie", some Mother's Son (Molto pasta on famiglia festa guignos!?). YO! And I got a Bella: She says I'm NUMBER ONE!!! (Meantime:) I'll do my Duty. And carry on.




c2017, davedelacroix/ourmanineurope/sciacca/Sicilia.