Elvis the owl was singing in the rain
His refrains were ridiculous.
Gloriously with a snap insane!
His boots would twirl as he sang of old
Cowboys meeting up with an alien
Who had a space heart of gold
I watched him travel from town to town
To steal hearts of the country crowd
Making Texas happy, with his whiskey sound
Barkeeps would try to extend his stay
But his voice was like silver and diamonds too
The others would complain in a casual way
He could commit murder and get away
Elvis the owl, you are the boy I never had!
Said a groupie who followed him every day
Categories:
barkeeps, bird,
Form: Rhyme
Kelso has a boat
smeared to the gunnels,
with cawk and greasy weeds.
At a prow of dawn
he hauls dripping lobster,
and their pots
up the scummy steps
of the silty stone harbor,
pushing a barrow
into the towns brick narrows.
Kelso barters claws and tails
to barkeeps, crab-mongers,
to fish wives and their
salty daughters.
At close of day
he returns
to the bight, the bitty harbor,
to eats mackerel
from a spray-seasoned skillet.
Then Kelso lays back
with his reeky brown dog
and smokes a care-free
funky blue fog.
Categories:
barkeeps, poetry,
Form: Blank verse
There once lived a man
who smiled a grand smile
and danced a tune so sweet,
he loved the most beautiful of women
and wrote the most real of poetry.
He left the world listening to the hot water music
of the world
and time went on and he left a long time ago
so long, but they remembered him
as a good man.
The hot water music sings softly in the ears
of my own,
and those girls drink their sorrows in the bar
and danced on the marble dance floors
and the DJs and barkeeps leave their posts
and have a cigarette or a free beer
or fresh air outside
and they all hear and know of the hot water music
that at one time that man listened to.
And they all break glasses and paper plates
and dance on home,
and sleep at night
wake up at dawn
find themselves on another woman's lawn.
Tears fall from their eyes
and they say their goodbyes.
Categories:
barkeeps, lonely, lost love, metaphor,
Form: Free verse