My Outer Sphere

(February 6, 2012, Monday, 7.25 PM - 7.42 PM, slumbering on bus going home from work.)

Now, forget Chris Barber
We´re tryin´ so much harder
Now, forget Chris Barber
We´re tryin´ so much harder

Be-bop Chimes
With the Saran Wrap
Be-bop Chimes
With the Saran Wrap

Get out of that chair
get across that gap
Single devotees
a great mishap
...

Toby!
Toby won´t you walk me slowly
we watch the ages of the holy
We need assurance from the lonely
...

The Saran Wrap
up beyond the gap
The Saran Wrap
knows where bitches slap

Slap, slap
lollipop
with young white men
in Corduroy
hip and hop
up to the top
with the winter clothes
on our lonely boy
...

Now, Saran Wrap
why give me a call?
Saran, why did you
care at all?

glimpses of Rita
and the Chris Barber glimpse
Glances on dances
and those wimps
and those pimps

Lady Lorney, hey
you gave me a call
Lady Lorney, you
know I´m six foot tall

If Chris Barber collides
with my outer sphere
you can bless me and carry me
out of here


(Comments: You can´t go to the supermarket in Sweden and buy Saran Wrap. Instead you ask for GladPack.
Probably you should write ”bebop” instead of ”be-bop”, but this poem demands ”be-bop”.)
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Straitjacket Boogie

(Written on the bus 07.35-07.50 AM, Dec 7th, almost asleep.)

the Straitjacket Boogie is the only boogie I know
the Straitjacket Boogie is the only boogie I know
and I´m stuck here by this road sign, sayin´:
"You always gotta go with the flow!"

that Be-Bop Lalena is the only girl that I know
that Be-Bop Lalena is the only girl that I know
out of millions of young ladies
she´s the one that I adore on Skid Row

...

the mailman gave me letters
and the mailman gav me bills
Lalena is the only one
who gives me cheap thrills

she´s a heavy duty boxer
and a menace to my soul
that Lalena makes me holler, scream
and rock and roll

all right
all right
all right

...

that red brick building from now on will be my home
that red brick building from now on will be my home
in the basement they are selling
all those weapons for Athens and for Rome
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