OUR MAN in MALIBU: Dave Delacroix, No:81: ZUMA BEACH.

 Our Man in Malibu: dave delacroix, No: 81: ZUMA BEACH.

All the ONE HIT WONDERS who LANQUISH IN L.A. (Los Angeles), ALL THE ACTORS, LITTLE BUZZ back home; all the Belladonnas, MALIBU in a Caravan, Point Dume, Point Magoo. A ready made SOUP from the CHI-CHI, Cross-Creek market outside where I Busk?

All the SOPA, SOAP Opera blondes who gave ME hitch-hike rides back to town; the harmonica players. Jewish harps, clinging to their Jewish Agents whim, the HOLLYWOOD DITCH on DITCH that ploughs  the road to stardom or 12 CLAMS at Hendersons, Sunset & P.C.H.? ...

We dip fully clothed in the Santa Monica swell then laugh, shivering; our futures, hysterically hollyweird/poor on poor? Absolutely NO-ONE knows our limbs?

It's ONLY MONEY? (Car Radio)

 TALK SHOW: "S-Why these bastards NEED it so much? The Holy Kibbutz? No HELL after? A Kaddish?.. My BEST Gentiles, mostly, boring. Belong to the "Attitude/English Class System"; Max-ATTITUDE." English DJ? 

We towel ourselves off.

"Ask ANY BRIT, lord knows, he UNDERSTANDS the WORLD according to his "attitude"; you tell him your name he will immediately relegate U to some "Schoolyard" format; U have to BE put in your place. Living IN the USA for a few decades  I really did not miss this. Should I?"

(DJ/Santa Monica Car Radio)

"LUCKED OUT? Couple a few upper-crust ENGLISH gals. Always a JOY to meet. Fellow School-folks. Not many. Bela at the Sandcastle-Paradise Cove (Jim Rockford Backdrop), ships in the night. Better be LIFE-bullet proof. U never get to see her again 'cept in a vision?"

(Marcie & I slump on the Beach side of her Auto)

"ALL THE ONE HIT WONDERS, last years "JET" Movie, "SLASHER" flik. Up in Decker Canyon we're still pouring cheap champagne over the rental Zodiac, leastways, I'm over by the BBQ pit watching a MOVIE'S human detritous, 20 nobodies, out of a job, heads spinning, most, camera-of camera-of the Camera Man long since back in L.A. and gals, who knows?"

(Marcie rolls 2 cigarettes)

"All the ONE HIT WONDERS. Being a SONG-CARVER I look back at Ken Carpenter, B-Movie Actor. He's hosting, background, this gig. His daughter Kid, oblivious of the hullabaloo is swinging ON a TREE swing."

(Marcie lights my Doobie.)

"At some point the BBQ catches ABLAZE. Too much for the One Hit Wonders. They politely FLEE. Nothing NEW for me in California, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Sicily, Holland." 

(We towel Up. Neptune's Net Fish gig up by the Ventura County line seems too far away. The "House of Lee" in Pallisades gets our evening-repast vote.)

The Car Radio?...An echo of emptiness. Ourselves.

c.2021, dave deelacroix,november, corozal-belize....78 degrees at night.