Valparaiso 1980 modern guilt...
Bob Dylan
Guided people to their places
In the cemetery
Wearing a top hat
We were gone
Going
To Valparaiso
The Horn was sick and busy
I vomited my breakfast.
Pinochet welcomed us
With hands held out.
Marlborough and whiskey and
Threats with burp guns.
Dont mention Pablo…
Don’t mention the Stadium de Santiago.
Dragging mind in dirt
Like fifty filthy pieces of denial
Love has died
Poetry is dead
The girl let me hold her buttocks
$20 for more
Poetry is dead
I stagger on stained and dread
High on the squaller and fear
Whiskey washing my head
Whisper the Stadium
Shy half smiles that beg you to
Fuck off and keep us safe.
I wonder why they don't just laugh
at Americas latest joke
We thought the English are nice
Why are you the generals friend
It isn’t me
Twenty years later I still
Cry with guilt….
elPintor
Thu 16th Jun 2016 23:37
It is definitely pretty powerful stuff..there's enough here to make even the most painfully ignorant soul curious about past goings-on down south..if this doesn't, probably nothing will.
Glad I didn't overlook this one, Phil,
elP