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Gypsy James

Free Verse

Seminal Hipsters Driftin' On A Riff

('82-'94)

WHITMAN: "Americans should know the universe itself as a road, as many roads, as roads for traveling souls."
 

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Seminal Hipsters driftin' on a riff
restless sands a-shiftin'
bathed in Moonlight/
driftin' on ol' Harley chopprrrs
'n' in '55 Caddys
anarchic fiery red
like James Dean's Rebel jacket/
drift ears bent t' Bird
             'n' Monk
blowin' weed
thinkin' about the genius
         o' Lenny,
blowin' texts in furtive saloons
in many crazy City
blowin' NeoBop at parties
where drugs 'n' sex
bring one ever closer t'
Apocalyptic Orgasm/
who hang at times
at bus stations
frantic Zones
where doors hang off
        twisted hinges
windows terminally
flung wide open
t' relentless migrations
    o' idiot winds/
Seminal Hipsters drift
each destination
merely a milestone t' the nex/
drift in hungry wheeled
chariots o' Spirit
languid breezes caress
fleshtoned enigmas
o' Coolthe's elegance
illuminated ones
whose passionate songs
seduce every manifestation
                        o' Cosmos:
men women
           homeless dogs
fritzy alley cats/
Seminal Hipster bootheels echo
as they drift through mobs
camera eyes absorb
                    'n' transmute
fragments o' Human Machine
                     metamorphosis
flutes o' Pan
             Gone Horns
these Seminal Hipsters a-driftin'
too wise eyes pierce Night
solo flights...
 


II

Seminal Hipsters driftin' further
                             goofin'
drift wi' knowledge o' bizarre
'n' marvelous Kind/
free o' incarceration o' "Time"
wi' IT solid
through scuffles
                    'n' Highs
eccentric
                  ecstatic
Dervishes o' Transgression
in Hashshashin cafes
roamin' souks
                mercados
at jazz sessions
         poetry jams
straddlin' marble lions
           on waterfronts
in Hipster jalopies
              named Desire/
in Desolation
              'n' Ecstasy/
driftin' driftin'
for t' stop be t' stagnate
t' hesitate be "self"-destruct
Planet Terror
sucks itself into
               black hole
           o' its
Robopathic
                 Nothingness/
Seminal Hipsters seldom stumble
          in their driftin'
midst grotesqueries
o' steel 'n' asphalt penises
millions o' depraved
     paranoid windows
Plague o' money
'n' lust for violence
mockeries o' Love
                homeless masses
      terribly hungry
skilled hands
      forced t' be idle
forced t' crack
'n' the spike's doom
       lush
'n' puerile pettiness
               o' being
amidst hostility
towards these
                Seminal Hipsters
in face feathers 'n' laughter
bluejean threads
        wild T-shirts
'n' engineer Boots On/

 

III

Seminal Hipsters driftin' on a riff
Pirates upon this mystic ship
o' new 'n' different Visions/
adrift upon seas o' possibilities/
washed ashore
upon islands o' bizarre wisdoms/
who kiss red brick
            in heart o' Night
splayed wi' neons
              howlin' musics
'n' Gonest Kicks/
drift like lotuses
upon narcistic ponds
                o' spirituality/
driftin' on a riff
maybe first blown by Lilith
now impeccably slashin'
                   Death shroud
                 o' human folly/
Seminal Hipsters driftin' on a riff
                            t' Love
'n' inevitable
                        Death
                                    'n' Legacy...
 

 

 


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