Our Man in Europe, relocated to Belize, Dave Delacroix: "In My Solitude..." (Après Song by Billie Holliday, Jazz singer.)
"In My Solitude."
...IN MY SOLITUDE - semi retired - I LAUGH my ass off, far from the madding crowd, autograph hunters, GROUPIES, all they want is a piece of U or "colleagues" to steal your fire? In my solitude I forgot the beginning that knows no end, a 'la the Night that never finds the Day; no mission, no crusade, that illusion/concept U learn in school singing "Onward Christian Soldiers!", worse too, schools of religion, politicians, CULTS who cannot thrive without a piece of U? Your combat Body-Bag awaits! No-worries. A flag over your corpse. Some Iman, Priest, Rabbi will recount your bravery, words U will never hear.
"Allah-Akbar! A-KHADISH, Ave Maria!" -Ancient Iconoclasts, historically did the best they could? (Bob Dylan: "Don't follow Leaders/Watch the Parking Meters!) ... Paintings on temple walls as Caravaggio hunting down a Papal paycheck, Da Vinci, Michaelangelo, Raphael stalling the evolution of Art History -GOTTA BE BIBLICAL DUDE! No Bosch, Bruegel, no Impressionists till the Spanish Inquisition had almost extinguished creative minds? "Allah-Akbar! GOD WILLs IT!!!" Or a Yiddish Kadish, the Red Sea Pharaohs at their heels? - A TSUNAMI saved the day?
In my solitude, Societies pathetic soliloquies of insidious "brain washing", some JU-JU Man, probably Islamic, could ever land U on any kind of an altruistic footing? Pre-arranged marriages, BRIDE-BURNING, Cervical-Surgery less a HIJAB Gal gets "frisky", do U dance the fandango "in flight" or with down-to-earth muddy feet identify, embrace protest this HUMANOID Night?...
...or succumb, cowered, worship a Fascist symbol, a Societal inferno of FEAR? That collective SCREAM, a solitude within solitude apparently pre-destined, within a ROOM where WE, UN-thrived, sneak on our neighbors, where we 'squirrel", where we LIVE...in solitude: to tear down the tapestry of our Youth.
c.2026. Dave Delacroix.
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