Andrew Marstrand-Daucé
Vonnegut, Kerouac, Mailer
Norman was a fighter;
Novelists, poets and drunks
Soaked up his fists and his rants
And the sheer bloody punch of his big, meaty books.
Blow, Jack said, just blow,
Like a jazzman on his horn!
Yeah, he was in love with life
Enough to let it happen.
Old Kurt was an extra uncle;
I’d swallow any crazy story
He told me on his giant knee.
I’m stuck in the bar with these guys.
Norman looks me up and down.
“Hey you!” he says, “you think you’re tough?
Step outside!”
Ah, forget it. There’s home-made
Coconut ice-cream in the fridge.
Like the man in the supermarket said:
“I can’t decide. I’m going home.”
So I think about the creamy stuff
As Norman scoffs at the flowers in my bag,
Jack flicks ash on my seventeenth draft
And Kurt says “what happens next?”
Life happens next. Make your own.
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