M. A. Duxbury-Hibbert
Yankees all
Age two gum chewed 1942 away
in a blacked out bombed out limey
town with groups of G.I. studs
who drank & rapped & roared
with tales to wondrous to recall.
Age ten valve radio transmits North
American jazz grabbing psychic breath
as Bessie Smith & Jelly Roll soar
high over fog shrouded rain swept
gas lit cobbled Northern streets.
Vanished childhood recalled recalls
Little Richard, Fats Domino &
Chuck Berry dancing wild through
young mind’s inner landscape & old
memory’s selective nostalgic eye.
Teenage sex fantasy projection
identification cult idol fetish
silver screen fixated Brando Dean
whilst Norma Jean sets up wet dream
orgies in sad sweet bitter teenage angst.
Age sixteen read Kerouac dropped
out full bearded hit hard roads
to tramp Albion’s back water small
town’s bright dark cities fleeing
an unknown American dream.
Miller into Patchen through Ginsberg
around Leary over Kesey via Dylan
by Coltrane outside Mailer under
Ferlinghetti passing Snyder riding
Corso upon Coleman — Yankees all.
in a blacked out bombed out limey
town with groups of G.I. studs
who drank & rapped & roared
with tales to wondrous to recall.
Age ten valve radio transmits North
American jazz grabbing psychic breath
as Bessie Smith & Jelly Roll soar
high over fog shrouded rain swept
gas lit cobbled Northern streets.
Vanished childhood recalled recalls
Little Richard, Fats Domino &
Chuck Berry dancing wild through
young mind’s inner landscape & old
memory’s selective nostalgic eye.
Teenage sex fantasy projection
identification cult idol fetish
silver screen fixated Brando Dean
whilst Norma Jean sets up wet dream
orgies in sad sweet bitter teenage angst.
Age sixteen read Kerouac dropped
out full bearded hit hard roads
to tramp Albion’s back water small
town’s bright dark cities fleeing
an unknown American dream.
Miller into Patchen through Ginsberg
around Leary over Kesey via Dylan
by Coltrane outside Mailer under
Ferlinghetti passing Snyder riding
Corso upon Coleman — Yankees all.
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