Ph.D Volo Von Wolfenstein Poet Free verse

Typewriter Dreams

I walked down jazz alleys with stingy cigarettes
and a head filled with typewriter dreams,
silently praying to sidewalk gods
for the inhaling of coconut rum, 
Chicago and Havana,
minds heavy with thoughts of steel and uranium
in the years before cold war, red missiles, 
and the rusting sickle of Russian terror,
seeing dusty men gathered outside newspaper stands
waiting and plotting, in quiet conversations about Che Guevara, 
and in America, small bankers with obscene moustaches
fingered money with a capitalist fix, primarily 
out of the silk lined jackets of a charading middle class,
that got stuck in first, like early model Cadillacs, blooming
in the 60's like early spring lilacs, violent purple, pink,
and the blue of acid blotter fractal brothers and Grey's  
later paintings of cross-sectioned life, where Jesus was spread out
and examined in new eyes of a public embracing science and
the sub-atomic nuclear buzz, in the years before computers
and solitary confinement of plastic and lamplight, in the years
before the war on multicolored terror and human entropy,
here, the rising fist was a message, not a punchline.

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Lisa Cooper December 16, 2011 at 9:59 AM great read! you have one word mispelled,on your fourth paragraph, the word should be inhaling. Not being critical just a friendly observation. :) Ph.D Volo Von Wolfenstein December 16, 2011 at 10:13 AM thanksss