By: Dan Jacoby
down dark junky streets
looking for a fix
for the tenement night
black eyed high hipster
up in brooklyn cold water flats
cruised college high on saroyan and ginsberg
busted on rural highways
just outside atomic city
with bags of cleaned green,
in college halls,
hammered on peyote
in that world’s fair museum
in chicago’s hyde park
jumping off emotional ledges
there has to be some urgency like
bullfighting in hell’s kitchen,
meat for the preacher
in rainy macarthur park
wandering in withering withdrawal
unstill writing arm
in empty train yards chasing
psychic mexican girls
momentarily motherless
getting it in wet barrio alleys
in winter rain looking
for hunter thompson’s ghost
in the book of dreams
sentenced to jail
for juvenile intoxication
red eyed from pink catawba wine
off junk on weed
of the mind with a belly
full of olives and soul music
from broken pocket pallets
tighten their watches
as to slow time, left
dead on wall street
in four hundred dollar suits
Dan Jacoby is a graduate of Fenwick High School, St. Louis University, Chicago State University, and Governors State University. He has published poetry in several fine publications. He is a former educator, steel worker, and counterintelligence agent. He was born in 1947 on the second floor of a cold water flat at 55th and Halsted, Chicago. He has been writing poetry since 1967 and his work is influenced by the Beats, John Knoepfle, Al Montesi, and John Logan to name a few. He has been nominated in 2020 for a Pushcart and Best of the Net. He is the author of the book Blue Jeaned Buddhists.
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