CHOSEN
THERE WERE CHILDREN CRYING AND COLOURS
FLYING ALL AROUND THE CHOSEN ONES
Neil Young gorgeous hunk? Or ape-ian? Soundtrack to start of
hippiegirl era 14 After the Goldrush Too cool for Beatles crazed
brother in his striped stovepipes
He +Jew-fro’d friend now a neurosurgeon busy with Beatle business in
next bedroom As I lay splayed Window cracked cig wafting Poodle mellow
Soon to chew a hole in bed searching for cool-girrrl’s stash
46 yrs. come+gone Neil on computer screen Saturday eve Lights out
Laptop +tequila balanced on good knee Reefer no more New pot sent poet
into ecstatic confessions Giant spiders still leap onto body nightly +snakes
in mind’s eye slither up vericosed legs
But what I will say is: None of this extraneous bullshit matters to one’s spirit
To one’s life force Even seeing Neil Young hulking+broken on the computer
screen Slovenly+doddering Blasphemy!
Execs who paid him BIG corporate bucks knew he needed mega$$$ for alimony
after jilting the loyal Pegi (for the ho Darryl Hannah after 34 yrs. of marriage)
Neil you bastard You deserve to look like you do Unwashed Unloved Unfucked
Though tattered souls still soar to your high-pitched groan: 4 dead in O-hi-O
4 dead in O-hi-O
Unlive the years! Re-inhabit splayed girl on mauve bedspread Canned Heat poster
on the wall Room where 5,830 nights of stony sleep Unaware of the fact that: once
you left (at 19 with young husband in tow) the wind would kick up The house razed
by bourgeois buyers +your brothers flung into men’s bodies Your parents: 1 dead +1
creeping
But you were there The tributaries indelible Right up until the day that: a heavyset
man in a brown coat +a winsome whore with yellow flowers in her golden hair walk
beside you up through mountain passes Until you end up back at that front door!
Bald grandfather Joseph is waiting Black poodle howling at the harvest moon
Put the needle on the record
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FALL 2017 For Rocco Rella long may you run..
Covered a lot of ground! Zaida, the Dr. in Hartford, but a real hard on for Neil Young. Kent State mentioned in passing. Blackie what a dog!