Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ "Mr BO JANGLES."

Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ "Mr Bo Jangles."


(dedicato: All the good folks who gave me a hitch-hiking ride THREE TIMES across the awesome expanse of the United States of America.)


Mr Bo Jangles...


...I met him 1955, on  an October eve; we jangled all the potpourri, then called it Duck Soup? It was quite incidental, witnesses, no-one was required? Couple'a gals were hangin' out (Blond, Ruby and Pigtails)  whilst we chain-smoked and kissed  the frickin' sky?
Mr Bo Jangles? Mr Bo Jangles: Danced.

Gott'a job in old New York. Stephen Sondeim  was dead. Found a crib in St. Marks place by Washington Square? An every high noon some kid would appear, mandolin, violin or guitar, or just some happy-dancing feet?
-Mr Bo Jangles. Yo Mr Bo Jangles: Danced.

Now sucking roots and chewing cud, in a faraway land, back to 1955, what I understood? And so every October eve, every Belle I see on the street? Better yell at all dem young bucks - git it ON - bust'a  move with dem feet!?
 YO! Mr Bo Jangles! Mr Bo Jangles!
 YO! Mr Bo Jangles...and say "Hi!" to everyone U meet...:)



c2016/davedelacroix/Marina di Modica, Sicily (still dancing)

Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ "Lady Caroline."

Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ "Lady Caroline."


Up in the air, down by the sea? Smoking Mount - Volcano - ETNA,  gone to school in Syracuse: Leonardo will love YOU more than me?
At the family Roman Villa with Giuseppe, Lady Gena and Queen Carmella, love surrounds; still: Dario will love you more than me?
On the beach in Sampieri, bucket-spades, kids, Cocktails,  and sand in your shoes; Ivano, Claudio, Jana, Elena and Syriana, Francesca too! -ALL will love you more than the boy who sits in your shade?
As for Antonnio and Grazia?... Somebody move dat Cafe Umbrella.


c2016/davedelacroix/Pozzallo-Sicily.

Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ "TANGO!"

Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ "Tango!"

(dedicato: Franscesca)


Tango? WHEN do U Tango?
 (Twist)
When U Swish?
 (Kiss)
 Swirl into: Click-click-click!
 (Swirl)
 Into another World?

 TANGO and BEND;
Dip!
- do U Tango?

 And Swish?
(Kiss) then advance,
 quick step to a beginning?

 TANGO dress, silk, satin, smooth,
 striped pantalone,
 becoming a dancing fool?

 HOOP-LA!
 And quick-step (Switch),
 swish all your dreams:
 (Swerl) in the moment of Fandango?

Tango? WHEN do U Tango?
(Twist) -When U Swish?
(Kiss),
Swirl into Click-click-click!
into another World?

And only then, arrives your Fandango.



c2016/davedelacroix/portoparlo, sicily.

Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ "Sweet Sarafina."

Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ "Sweet Sarafina."


Sweet Sarafina, sweet Sarafina,
 far flung from home with necklace,
 earrings, bracelet charms to beguile the strong,
 the bold and the true,
 but still the Gig comes home to you?

 Winter, Spring, Summer or fall,
 burning Leonardo, Syriana, one and all?
 Trail's End? where do we all lie,
 in peace or distress,
 curtailed in some Ghoulash called SOUP?

 Sarafina - I love you - Sweet Sarafina
with necklace, earrings, funky patterns
...and bracelet charms to beguile the Strong?
Perhaps, like you, I too
could be wrong?...


c2016/davedelacroix/ourmanineurope/Modica/Sicily.

Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ "ALL about Steve."

Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ "ALL about Steve."


ALL about STEVE in a World, all about DAVE, this Sunday, Wednesday, no respite? -Lost in lonesome sanity, lost in sight, an American abroad?
ALL about Steve (in a world of DAVE), Intimissi, a visitor, creeps reluctantly, under your skin, like an old friend, where u end, he begins: an over-nite fool, whilst host-Dave perceives the double-helix of entwined inadequacy, prep-discussion, the square: the "ID!"...and ALL, sea to shore, the tides which re-fresh our succinct?
ALL about Steve AND Dave... lie strewn, in abundance, on a lee shore like old friendships?

(Changin' da MOOD!?)

"BEE-BOP-A-LOOPA, She's mah BABEE!!!"


c2016/davedelacroix/Marzimami, Sicily, feelin' groovy!...:)

Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ "...All dem BUGS!"

Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ "...All dem Bugs!"

(dedicato: Marcello...and all the boys on the F-1 track!)


This side of Marcello S., burnt, blistered (FORMULA ONE/Race car driver); "all dem bugs?" -in a GIG that has no meaning except to DRIVE young men to their destruction?, and  (all dem BUGS?) just what ORGASM do they feel (all dem bugs?) sweaty, under the fleeting (glory-thingy)  checkered flag?
ALL DEM BUGS, Cinzano, fuck-all advertising, Marcello S., Nicki Lauda burnt face that NO hooker would want to kiss, un-like Gille V., a corpse, stinking in his coffin, un-heralded by Michelin, the Restaurant STAR guide?
And WHo (just who?) am I, some David, awaiting Life's Goliath ( a train)  at  Monaco railway station, to complain, least, observe? -Amidst Human-insanities petroleum fumes?... Puff! Puff! The jalopy arrives (Diesel-thingy)?
An elegant Lady boards the newly arrived Whassit? - train. Portmanteaus, porters, tips are exchanged. With a passing glance, almost a sigh, she whispers: "Montecarlo? Too many bugs!"
Sideways, I commiserate.



c2016/davedelacroix

Our Man In Europe/DAVE DELACROIX "o musselmann!"

oUR MAN IN eUROPE/ O Sole MUSLIM MAN.


Wotcha-gonna-DO? O Muslim man? When your daughter sucks the cock of some CHRISTIAN boy? Gets married; your fine young son become Homosexual? Or EATS beef, lamb, wipes his hands on your Pork? What ya gonna do?
Wotcha gonna Do, O Mussel-man (In Western Europe) -in Grecian, french dude,  in this new land, places YOU consider, populated with INFIDELS, people whom, normally,  U walk by and SPIT!?... And in YOUR strife? Where are your Brothers in ISLAM? Did they give U refuge? Or did they just  SHIP YOU OUT in Shah Allah?...like Muhammad, a Prophet, Moses, Jesus too?.. I am NOW fucking your two daughter! In Sha Allah: Let's sing and shout!



c davedelacroix/dave delacroix/ "Your Daughters? They sing SWEET LIBERTY!"