Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ "The Man who Saw Tomorrow."

Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ "The Man who Saw Tomorrow."


(dedicato: Sir John Waller, Bart.)


The MAN who SAW Tomorrow (maybe U acquainted/maybe U?) -"picka-picka-picka, ENSHRINED (U) in his EYE, seeing ALL the houses, buildings, Cities, Bank Accounts, the bridges, the sailing ships (now sunk), all come to nought in a DETRITUS; that cornerstone of "fast-buck" ingenuity?
Is that a Jewish thing? Or is that an Arab thing? Or is that an Arab against Jewish-Arab thing? And does THAT make it an "Anti-Semitic" thing? "Semitic Man commits Anti-Semitic Act? U go figure? And where does it END?"
Or maybe it's MONGOLIAN? Or, maybe, that inherent sickness: let's call it GREED?....And leave the good People of Mongolia OUT of the equation?
The MAN who SAW Tomorrow, despite his Ocular advantage, wished it was YESTERDAY, a frickin' "Timepiece" that YOU could "behold", Love, caress OR at LEAST make that SUCKER sit still?...No dice.
The MAN who SAW Tomorrow said: "Arrivederci!" to his kids, his girlfriend, his WIFE, to his goddamn LIFE and to a World he'd known before? Kindness? Bitterness? Hopes? Joy? Love and HATE (Hate, goddamn it!!!) STUFF! Like Fish gone South in a Refrigerator or a LIMP DICK on a Saturday Night!? JEEZE U don't know da meanin' of Heartbreak!?....Sittin' on a Porch, no Whisky, no Smokes, no Marylou, no frickin' BANJO!....just between now, THEN,  but not next: that UN-tomorrow of your iniquity?....
(Singing:) "Oh, the Grand old Duke of York? He had 10,000 Men? He marched them up to the top of the hill and then he marched them down again! And when they were UP they were UP and when they were DOWN they were down? And when they were only halfway up they were only halfway down!"

(Altogether now:) And when they were UP they were only HALF WAY down!

The MAN who SAW Tomorrow, he don't wash much, some Samaritan shows up once in a while, clips his whiskers; he  pretty much grinds around, sucks on Ol' Pa's Moonshine, don't make no sense; chewing CUD, making dumb figurines outta' Wood;  Arab? Jewish? Negro? White boy? WE think of him as an American; least ways, from Tennessee, some kinda Citizen of the Planet? Some Old Boy. The Fool on the Hill? Kids gather, tell he's known to tell Stories? (Git on home with Ya!).Y'all give him some space, ya hear,.U traveller who pass on by?.....


c2017/davedelacroix/Lord Borgo/Sciacca-Sicily.






































his sad Life, HIS WORLD; he KNEW, but HAD to UN-knowing: Kindness, bitterness, love and hate like old fish in a refrigerator past its date, sitting all alone with a SKILL SAW in his hands, having CUT Time in HALF....?