Thanks...they are probably not going anywhere. Today I am 59 and, as always, find that what I write that matters the most to me is the strange past. And a ballad (as unacceptable as one is) does the job for me. All those stories are essentially true. Now here's a song (to the tune of Arthur McBride).
I Love Them Old Hippies
I love them old hippies. The kind like before.
Like my poor old friend Kevin who slept on my floor.
Who told me he wouldn’t be sick anymore
But went back to the streets in the morning.
Saying “You know you’re in trouble and you got the blues.
When you forgot all you learned from Mother Earth News.
“I’m going to Mexico. Sleep under the stars.”
He went down to Mexico. Found many fine bars.
Where he could drink down the night and forget about wars
And wake up in the desert in the morning.
“I’ll tell you what Dooley. I’m not going to stay
I’m going to New York instead of L.A.
With my Carmelita. Our love will abide.”
But they lost it to junk on the Lower East Side.
The water is waly. The water is wide.
I got a call early one morning.
Now, my poor friend Kevin’s gone down to the dark.
His VW bus is in permanent “Park..”
He’d talk until morning then light up a Lark
And tell me he believed in transcendence.
“You know you’re in trouble and you got the blues.
When you forgot all you learned from Mother Earth News.”
andrew burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote: Go, Joe! Fine fun quatrains. I possibly didn't 'get' all the satirical
references, being an innocent Aussie, but the rhythms and rhymes
entertained me fine - like a Dylan talking blues, or Tweeter and the
Monkey Man. My favourite rhyme would have to be -
I had brought along "Ulysses."
Joyce was always such a charmer.
But I lounged outside in that Texas breeze
Reading Philip Jose Farmer.
Hee hee ...
Are these all going in a MS, Joe?
Andrew
On 23/09/2007, joe green wrote:
> On This Day I Approach MY 59th Year--
> A Ballade
>
> The Vietnam war was goin' on
> And I was at Fort Hood
> Sometimes feeling pretty sad.
> Most times pretty good.
>
>
--
Andrew
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