Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix... The Red Scarf.

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix... The Red Scarf.


dedicato. Marie-ANNE.

RED SCARF I lost to you. Red scarf which we shared through thick and thin, heat and cold, danger and sometimes we-d Win, that red scarf, a signal, an identity, running Pamplona bulls, trampled by Love-s diatribe.
That Red scarf, that Signal, that Auto-da-fe, that S.O.S, that emotional TITANIC, people say WE are too deep, people AWED, IN-comprehending in Our Twilight-zone that FRAZZLES common-sense,  Intellectuals, back to the Chalk-board, the THINGS Kids learn. Back to SCHOOL. A Red Scarf. Just that!
That RED SCARF now, somewhere floating on the Sea.


c.2020. davedelacroix. Chateaux-Suisse. France.

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix... Ashes to Ashes.

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix... Ashes to Ashes.

Dedicato. Fleetwood-Mac.



ASHES TO Ashes, TITS to Bust, any farewell KISS
will DO.
Ashes to ashes, bust to TITS, some DICK
to make it Unique! Fantasy!

Succubus to LAMIA ....in a Lover-s COIL
strangles the Soul, leaving desolation
and the WANT
later,
to despoil. Who wriiggles in the Pond!!!

KISS UPON KISS
the  grande betrayal, as-to
corpse-living-love-s CONCUBINE
a Pre-Raphaelite

and ashes to ashes, dust to dust
U entwined
and yet the Rock N Roll, KICK-BUTT
prevails
in your Smile...

Ashes to Ashes, some Hollyweird Song
...a Moon over Sunset Boulevard
and the THIEVES who sing!


c.davedelacroix


c.2020, davedelacroix, chateaux-suisse, GERS, France.

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix.... Menu for Murder, Detective DnD, Kids lost and Found... on the Case, Episode 29. DEAD CALAMARI.

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix, Menu for Murder, Detective DnD, Kids lost and Found... on the Case. Episode 29. DEAD CALAMARI.



Not that he was just famous for Film Noir Cult hits like THE MAN WHO FUCKED UP, a Romance, or his...now swan-song, THE MAN WHO really FUCKED UP, a thriller, the Hollywood Bungalow bloodbath debacle was at first LOADED with Commas. CONNAN de CORMAN, avante-garde Film Director was butchered!  As for the Crime scene...the Hollywierd Body Bags, boys in blue, had trampled over the Crime scene. Snappy Wiestrom from the L.A. Times somehow gained entrance...slip a 5 for a dive, no questions asked... and by the time now-Lieutenant . ex-Sgt Nalty arrived on the scene...with a retirement Real Estate future in mind, had to give several evasive interviews to the gathering Paparazzi with Lights flashing on Bel-Air crescents and a crowding number of Hired Help poking round for gossip for their Gilded Masters, the immediate neighbors.
Finally, entering the Bungalow Crime scene, Lt. Nalty was deflated, looking like a Jesuit who-d lost his Rosary. Maybe because retirement was ON the horizon, maybe he-d just had his fill of Homicide blood and guts! ...A REAL dude knows when to ask for a helping hand...wishing I woz back in NYC where we just shoot the bastards, he reached out. Old Pal. And DnD, The KIDS Lost and found Detective dude came a-running.
After an hour or so DnD gave it to Nalty real straight.... The basement-s full of Happy-Meals refuge. If you dig under I suspect you-ll find what we NEVER want to find. There-s gonna be a kid or 2 roaming the L.A. streets looking frazzled. But conclusively there-s SOME folks covered in retribution blood, leastways for an hour or two.  Its an Octopus of a gruesome case. There are EIGHT ways you can proceed here, Nalty. If you want closure I-d say Dead Calamari. Folks rescued and, maybe not Legal, but took care of their Own! A Homicide committed by Person or Persons unknown...U gonna be OK facing the Media...There-s a single Malt with your name on it awaiting you at my Hooch!
Outside, over head, the LAPD Chopper, searchlight-wavering, made silent wings in a dark sky.


c.2020, dave dekacroix, chateau suisse, gascony, france.

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix... IAGO!

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix.... IAGO!

dedicato. Dat Gal I met in Aspen, Colo. Worried bout sitting on the Pot Farm in CAL. Never saw her again.

IAGO!!

There-s ALWAYS an IAGO
Your Bitch
Your Brother
your Bartender
your Best Friend
and either-DUX
might be the Dude
or that VIXEN U once knew
who craves her Hour-s Pussy
on Your Stage, her Heaven,
COLD, UN-touched
that permeates, the Sad Cafe arrives!
A crushed-paper Coffee cup.
Love-s Forgotten.
The worst!

There-s ALWAYS a BRAVO
wants to pay the Bill
kick your Ass
be a Fuck-blocker
not ALWAYS Sicilian
but mostly LATIN
got a bad left-eye,  and some say.
ORIGAMI
always kills Romance,
an abstract SUBMARINE.
GOSSIPS sink ships
sending so many brave hearts
to Love-s watery grave.
and yet your IAGO prevails.

There-s always, U know, an IAGO.
That SUIT, that IAGO
Off the Peg, Un-tailored
some sash flair for the HOLLOW who DARE
to look, to look, what came before
and their low-rent ever-after.
Still. Like a VAMPYRE.
Look in the MIRROR.


c.2020. davedelacroix, chateaux-0suisse, GERS, France.

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix... Just WHY Lucy quit queuing at the NSBC Bank!

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix.... JUST WHY Lucy QUIT queuing at the NSBC Bank!

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix... Just why LUCY quit QUEUING at the NSBC BANK....

Lucy has 100 Euros for a Bank Account. She wants to secure her 100 Savings.
Nice person arrives, Lady BIZ suit. Maybe from Yorkshire.
Lucy sez I am NOT on the Internet. I am NOT Stupid. This Internet is NOT my Lifestyle. All Information, please SEND by POST to  me in a  Statement.
OK says BIZ-Gal. Let-s set up your ACCOUNTS.
1 hour and 6 pages later with several UN-forgettable PASSWORDS whilst UN-beknown to Bank-Biz-Gal.... Lucy is Semi-Incontinent due to recent abortion ...LUCY kind-a staggers out of the HSBC Bank to try and find a Toilet, certainly NO Financial Comfort just Hi-tech confusion agog and soggy dishabille.
Luckily, local PAKI Mini-Market. Toilet at back. Then finds a way to CALM DOWN by shopping for Tummeric, root-ginger, maybe some Pillau-Rice...
Lucy can-t REMEMBER if she squared away her Bank Corres. by POST as opposed to E-mail. She
dosent own a Laptop nor care for a Jugular Cellphone. At home, a Bedsit, she has a Stereo, listens to Vinyl-classic 60-s LPs and designs and markets Ladies Summer Gear. And has not the slightest compulsion OR desire...COVID-CITY...to go back to HSBC, this Bank...nothing in the POST to enquire and STANDING IN LINE is a Culture ....as for SO many...too far away and- or the cost of a letter, of  personal communication. ROBOTTICA!!! Gone South.

Yo Lucy! Knock on my door! Coffee in da Pot!

c.2020, davedelacroix, aug, france.

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix... Doris at the Market.

Our Man in  Europe, dave delacroix... DORIS at the Market.


dedicato. Isabel Pessoa. Portuguese Artist. Not dead yet.



Its ALWAYS some dumb Ass Song
the One U longed for
that broke your heart
back in 1999.

Its always the RAG, the Politic Flag
when U stormed
the Barricades, killed your
GIVING Parents
in your Mind.

That GOD DAMNED Song
Ghosts your Sensibilities
TWEEKS your GIG
then breaks your knees
like a cool Fool
enjoying an Orgasm

Nobody wrote it, nobody Thought it.
U just ended Up with a Rhyme
in your Cranium.
It=s always Ricky-3 or Henry 6
Kings of England!


Or whoever the new boss,
Taxes-UNTOWARD.
U making Pals with Doris
at the Market
maybe Australia-bound.

It-s always some Dumb-Ass Song
that WHISTLES or whispers,
that says... U better get a-long
that U resent , as U approach
your next reluctant Utopia.


c.2020.davedelacroix. Aug. France.

Our man in Europe, dave delacroix... SISTER aint got NO Justice!

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix... SISTER aint got  No Justice!


dedicato, Carol M. Aniello, Isabel Pessoa, Anna Cimo.


Have U ever wondered why there-s 25 Blackbirds in a Nursery rhyme Pie
or a ring=a ring-a Poesy, ATISHOO, U die
and ALL the Kings horses, HUMPTY-DUMPTY man
or the Grand Old Duke of York...whassit!....A RE-UNION, PUSSY-galore!

HAVE u EVER been to a PEACE Conference in AFRICA. No Toilets for the GALS
or a POLITIC in Western Europe....free Cosmetic Take-a-way. Have U ever SAT in a
PRAESIDIUM in your Mini-skirt without fear of RAPE,

Have U ever glanced at the MEN IN GREY, in Afghanistan, IRAN, or theVatican Priest-Police
and-or the devil-s foot, ISLAM toilets, likely to put U in your place.
Have you ever wondered about your SOCIO-CULTURAL second place
or walk behind the Japanese Idiot U married too soon...

Have U ever wondered why there-s 25 Blackbirds in a Nursery Pie
or famous Poet-fools who wrote... and missed your sky!


c.2020, davedelacroix, chateaux-suisse,gascony-france.

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix... In the Chateaux-Dans le Chateaux.

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix... In the  Chateaux-Dans le Chateaux.


It-s another pristine LOIRE valley cool scene
and another little ARISTO is born...at the Chateaux,
AT the CHATEAUX!
And the Contessa cries...

And what da fuck-he-s an angry young man
steals his dads Maserati-expensive wheels
wraps it round a tree
calls everybody up for a Kennedy-ALIHBI-eee!
and the Contessa cries..

...for the Gold-digger-mini-skirt
in the passenger seat
and a Politic MESS no-one can greet,
and the Contessa cries...

Don-t U know its bout Taxes N Turn,
U gonna fail the System some day. So bring along the Guillotine
the Nation=s Shaver. the Barber of Seville!
Sweeney Todd, got a job
maybe at the Chateaux...
and the Contessa cries...again!!

It-s another spectacular Val du Loire-France Chateaux
cool dawn and another little ARISTO gets born
in the Chateaux....IN THE CHATEAUX!
and the Countessa cries...




c.2020, aug. Chateaux-Suisse,Gascony-France, davedelacroix

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix...The Regret.

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix...The Regret.


dedicato. Michael G. and Vando F.


....WISH I WAS IN Montpelier, France, who could ASK for more. Wish I was in Groningen, Anna=s by the score. Wish I was in Malibu with the KISSIN GAL at Neptune-s Net... and wish I was in St. Petersburg with a Pushkin and a Queen of Spades. Leastways a Natasha!

Wish I was in Mombasa-Kenya, the harbor, to the lighthouse, that simmers over FORT JESUS where so many lives went South. Wish I was in Arkansas, cool music, a Banjo on my knee. Wish I was on the MASON-DIXON line, travelled SOLO, travelled FINE, travelled Yak-yak-yak every time, a broken heart if NOT for thee. Wish I was your Tuxedo, wish I was your Dress. Wish I was your expensive handmade Italian Shoes. Sometimes, every second moment I WISH I could Tip-toe out of here,

c.2020, davedelacroix...life in gascony..

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix...Covid-19-Cold Wind from Valhalla.

Our Man inEurope, dave delacroix....COVID-19-Cold wind to Valhalla



North of England, Industrial City-suburbs, kids razed 1950s like Gangs, borrow shoes, shirts, shorts to wear, the rest to the Bundle Man. Clothes by the pound, take em down there in someone-s PRAM, maybe the latest kid gets a comfy ride. And ALWAYS at night, under naked bulbs, crowded-bartering, mischief abundance, post-war SURVIVAL in this Green and Pleasant land! And HEY!! The RAG n BONE Man clanging-weekly on terraced house streets. Here-s MY Kid-s heart, age 4, maybe U take it away! But there=s NO,,,as usual...no UK Business Plan, no MARSHALL plan. No TOILET, no COUPON, certainly no DIVIDEND except the scars on Spitfire Pilot-s faces, the one-s that survived, the traumatized Merchant Seamen harried by U-Boats, 55,000 Merchants-men-casualties in the ATLANTIC COLD OCEAN to keep the U.K. fed, and the Miners who KEPT on Mining, the Ladies who OUTRANKED History, industry, Armed Forces and beat back EVIL. Shoulder to Shoulder! ....What Price your NIKES...

COVID-19. It-s a cold wind from Valhalla. And now it-s up to You!...

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix...The Walls of Jericho and the Man in the Shade.

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix... The Walls of Jericho and the Man in the Shade.


OUT DAMNED SPOT! Da Spot! The Man in the SHADE. OUT U Devil who shadows Our History. What Wealth, what POWER, what BEIRUT explosion, curdling in the palm of reptile Talons, scurry-fast when retribution ensues.
Out Damed Spot. Your Tits R Vinegar. Blood on STREETS, misery. Your SLAVES R burning!
Always, always the MAN in the SHADE who by admission, Accusation, Retribution, just fades away...as the walls of Jericho resound!!!


c.2020. dave delacroix.

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix... Menu for Murder, DnD L.A. DETECTIVE episode... WHO KILLED MOE!

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix... Menu for Murder, D n-D Detective episode... Who killed MOE!!!

...Story so far. 3 Chickens at the Maison Vic-F, Gascony-France. Curly, Larry and Moe.
 1 dead. Moe.
2 looking guilty. Larry and Curly.
 Hercule Pierrot ...being fictionally dead... local Law-Enforcement invited D n D, L.A. Detective, Missing-Kids-Lost and Found! ..here on vacation... to review this unique case.
 The Gendarmes were stymied!

It was a NO-brainer. MOE, cock-a-doole-whoo, LMBGT-Transgender-HEN, biggest DICK on a Chicken U ever saw, better than a CHUBB Alarm System had consistently thwarted the Chateaux-s BURGLARS ....U R NOT invited for Silver Candlesticks, VIRGINS or whatever! Obviously they HAD to kill MOE with Abuse, CLUBS, a HYPO, Esperanto, leastways-foul language! MOE had to dissapear! Bad for Biz!

Invited into the Crime Scene....Chicken-coop...-accrued of Situ....D n D suggested VIVISECTION, Stuffed-Bird-HEN-thingy ergo Dead-MOE was re-installed in his-her SENTINEL position. D n D thought the French Revolution TRI-color neckband  ON DEAD BIRD was a bit much. Eyes looked a tad glassy too but over-all...


AH-HA! Come the dead of Night! Kreig-lite LIT 3 Ninga-dressed FELONS who  were ambushed dans le Jardin en suite! Roughy-tumble...got beat up... twix the Statues and Flora in the Chateaux-s grounds, 20 Gendarmes in full  uniform...but all  the Ninja-burglars were arrested, later to be convicted and given 6 months of ETHICS instructions. A nieghbourhood sighed....

The day AFTER their arrest.....The local Gendarmes and the Marquis de la Chateaux celebrated with local Gascony Wine avec salad, fresh bread and le Soup de Poulet....


c.2020, Aug. davedelacroix.

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix...Amour sans L-Enfer!

Our Man in Europe, dave delacroix ....Amour sans L-Enfer!


Love without HELL
on a Sunday afternoon,
benevolence, UN-draped
in Christian nudity,
A KISS
and all it-s meant to be,
will U remember
on your Death-bed...

Love without HELL,
broken promises,
Shenanigans,
Adulterated-
showcased in some MOVIE,
no Car-chase
no Pistoleroes
just U, Her
stark naked
in the ever-after
and a Motel-s forgotten name!


c.2020, davedelacroix, chateaux-suisse, Gascogne-France.