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Twisting the Melon With Prince Jelly

April 3, 2016 Saira Viola Front page, Poetry 0

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Art by Unitas

 

Smugglers, beatniks, scuzballs, dopers, tree huggers, and bikers all wood for his fire.

He penned incendiary pieces on politics and saw most as quacks and fakes,

out for a hustle, a Washington power game

 

Rude, lewd, he fluted his own tune banged the bong,

a ballistic song; a spiky bard

and word sidar

he  liked it fast, liked it hard,

always smart

 

Freakydeaky Sheriff Pitkin,

could have been,

he was a lightening rod breaking all the rules

punk anarchist ahead of the curve

rabble rouser: spit rocking sharp verse

 

The king of Gonzo spin – sailing high

flaming hearts jivin’ minds

the seeds of sedition have now been sown

son of Kentucky

cocked locked and ready to load.

 

 

 

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