A new collection of songs and poetry from Felice!
Dear Friends and Readers,
This unexpected little tome is my first poetry collection since the 1977 The Deformity Lover and Other Poems.
It should really be titled Early Songs and Poems and Later Songs and Poems. And that's the way it reads in the table of contents.
Many of the early ones were written before those in Deformity Lover and I thought were "lost." An old friend Dennis Sanders living on the Costa Brava, Spain, returned to me "Fragments, 1972," and "On The Morton Street Pier, 1970."
Composer Walter Torgersen, set some to music and the Warhol-Era chanteuse, Jackie Curtis, regularly sang them in her act.
The second group of poems here are after The Deformity Lover and Other Poems from magazines and quarterlies. The "later" songs were set to music by a writer who got caught in California's "three strikes" marijuana law and ended up in a medium security facility. He had a sort of Rock band there. He's out now.
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Here's a later song:
BREAK DOWN
Gliding through sky blue buttes
Ragtop down and fluttering
No better ride for a city dude
‘Til my Chevy starts a-stuttering
Swerved to the side
it’s a lonesome road:
just succulents and loco weed
Phoned Triple A
when that tow truck arrived
the mechanic was cuter than anything
Sam’s the name
I read on her cap.
Tough as bolts
she got under the hood
lots of “hmm,”
lots of muttering,
I fell in love as she
spelled out the news:
--You got a busted carburetor
And your alternator’s shot
Those hoses there look ratty
Gas line’s downright iffy
Every belt inside needs changing
It’s wonder you got this far.
Oh, Sam’s the name
I read on her cap.
Samantha it was
when we married.
It’s HoneySam when
we’re both in bed
And Sammy-Who? When
I’m catting around.
I got a busted carburetor
And my alternator’s shot
My extremities are ratty
My arteries are iffy
Every organ I got needs exchanging
--It’s a wonder I got this far.
Oh, Sam’s the name
I read on her cap.
Samantha it was
when we married.
It was Watch-Out-Sam!
when we hit the skids
and Sammy-So Long
when she left me for dead.
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