Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/"2018: Don't Kill the Messenger!"

Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ "2018: Don't Kill the Messenger!"

(dedicato: Groucho Marx)


1) Minestrone.

As any one got some SOUP, stuff U can make,, bits and bobs U can throw in the Pot, Creative? As Any one got some Soup, bits-sliced, diced, a figure of NICE, a smiling TOM (atoe) for your Heart, some place where Love starts? As ANYONE got some SOUP....to share?

2) Yellow Rose of Texas.

Dumb, DUNG-down, 8,000 miles from home, UN-washed, UN-loved, UN-deciphered, UN - and inexplicably some "Guitar-Man on the Road?", Interstate-10, all 'cross TEXAS on my way to California, $2.00 to my name?
In Fort Jackson. I was pretty hungry? Pretty thirsty? I bought a CUP of Coffee. It came with a glass of Water. A Texas Lady-Waitress, pinafore 'an all, late on - I guess? - in years,  in a Classic DINER (Bacon & Eggs/99 cents) yet sees my despair and, perhaps, some shared Karma, finds a reason to hover around my table:  "Would U  be offended  if I gave U some "Cup-Cakes" for the Road?"...

3) Wolf Pass.

The Night the Internet went "South" I lost my Key to that Texas Motel room, people were CONFUSED, didn't KNOW what to do (No E-Mail?) A Rachmaninoff!? Dogs barked? Coyotes smoked Peyote! Kids, too, equally confused? -the scent of Peyote? (Civil confusion?)
The Night the Internet DIED (went South) U were in the "shower", expecting E-Mail, I was "Gassin'" up the Pontiac? I remember it like it was yesterday; route 666, out of some place, some place Cortez, Colorado? It was OVER Wolf Pass, headin' North to Cheyenne, Wyoming, yet somehow you and I...never got that far?

4) "Who DAT Man?

Who dat Man, WHO!?
Who dat BOY, become a MAN? WHO!?
And who dat GAL, yes, GAL, the "Promise"
for "another"?
WHO dat Man, who dat GAL:
the Plan?

Who dat CRETIN, born to POWER,
Generic Greed, the Wretch-Inside,
greedy for POWER? Who dat Man;
self-evident IN shame?

Who dat Man? WHO!!! Born
to Peace, swirling? Who dat Man;
hugs & kisses....UN-disguised, yet
racked upon a Cross by his own kind?
Who dat Man?.........YOU!!!!!??????

5) Only the Moon...

Only the Moon, Arizona sky, walking alone, U and I; no money, no favor, just a Lady who holds my hand under the Moon, just under the Moon?
Only the Moon, which way U turn? Kissin' your Kiss, that LOVE that lay in your lips?...As Only the Moon, keeping your Love true? As true as the Moon; and as true as You?
Only the Moon, some Credit Cards, a promise of your bright Destiny in some Western sky? We abandoned each other under a Las Vegas sky?...



6)Sempre Palermo"

(Yo. Co-written with bella-Sorella Guisi Segreto... CAPITO, mi Italiano, Poco: No Lingua Vendetta, Amici!!!.)

"Sempre Palermo
sempre amore,
come vai?
Mi cuore, despar?
sempra ragazzi, mi caro?

VAI, domani, mia
vita per te?
Sempre Palermo
sempre Siciliano!

Via mi Cuore!
Via mi Notte,
avante canzone,
momento sipencio
sempre amore, per te,

Sempre Palermo
sempre amore,
sempre Sicilia,
come vai?
Mi cuore, despar?...
a Palermo, per te?
Come vai?
raggazi?


7)  No Orchids for Miss Blandish.

No Orchids for Miss Blandish,
kidnapped in some Captive love?
No Orchids for the Kidnapper
who burns in Hell: Go Forth!!!

And no Orchids for that harvest
and no fruit from that dead tree,
no kiss, no bliss, just a bitter harvest
UN-toward, in a Storm
No Orchids for Miss Blandish

(U are NOT alone...)



c2017/davedelacroix/LORD BORGO/Sciacca/Sicily/ARMED TO THE TEETH.....:)