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JOHN DORSEY
the ghosts of 1958 i read somwhere that that jack micheline and ted joans rented themselves out cuz some hip little chick wanted "real" beatnicks for her sweet sixteen and of course jack would tell ya that he wasn't beat that is unless you were picking up the dinner check of course then he was one of the ghosts of 1958 a five spot on charlie mingus's shoelace dressed head to toe in black fixing to bird's spirit in the bathroom he was there listening to buddy holly snap bubblegum to your parents "true love ways" in the back of the chevy where babyboomer america was born groping jazz and while in mexico he fucked every whore that kerouac ever dreamed of but he wasn't beat no baby just one of the ghosts of the 1958 one of the outlaw spooks of walt whitman preaching civil rights for the heart of bob kaufman even after 1958 was no longer whispered on our nation's lips even after gregory went to italy and bob went silent into that goodnight having seen nightmares that rivaled dante's "inferno" he sang happy birthday to the flame of age that had slowly crept up on the word and swallowed his tongue hiding it in some scared hipster's tomb until he was ready to come out and dance John Dorsey currently resides in Toledo, OH. He is the author of "Harvey Keitel, Harvey Keitel, Harvey Keitel" with S.A. Griffin and Scott Wannberg, Butchershop Press/Rose of Sharon Press/Temple of Man, 2005, and "Moshing With The Cosmos" with Iris Berry, Magenta Press, 2005. He can be reached at archerevans@yahoo.com |
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