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Allen
Ginsberg in Liverpool
For
Adrian Henri (1932-2000)
You
took him to the Cavern; he jammed
with Trevor, drummer with Faron
and the Flamingos, chinged
his finger-cymbals, played Tibetan rhythms.
Everyone
thought him the gear
--the little Jew
with the long hair.
You said later, "He'd talk
to anyone. Anyone at all."
He
walked down Mathew Street
like a bloody saint, holier
than Ringo or John, a new messiah
serenaded
by fab red guitars
with suitcase-size amps
yeah yeah yeah yeah
And
you and McGough were writing
Batpoems
Batman on telly hipper
than the Avengers
had
yourselves immortalized
in front of Cousin's bakery:
"Batman Cometh with
Steak & Kidney Pies,
Meaty, Tasty."
You
wanted to paint
"The Arrival of Christ
into Liverpool" and here
was Allen Arrived,
the little Hairy Fella
in front of the 'Pool graffiti
"Long live the Pope.
King Billy forever.
Mick is gear."
The
breeze off the Mersey
lifted his locks
as you hustled him from
The
Cracke to the Phil,
horn of a Bibby freighter,
more pints and ten bob notes
ding ding ding
he
regaled Liverpool
as the "Center
of the consciousness of the universe."
Next
morning, your cat meowed to be fed.
Summer of Leafy Loving
Humid
in leafy Baltimore: We heard
grasshoppers singing in the baking grass
as we made love, while the tendrils of pink
sweet
pea climbed the arbor and butterflies
fluttered drunk round the purple buddleia;
goldfinches, dazzling yellow, rode the sun-
flowers
like trapeze artists. Perfume of lavender
wysteria and sweet gardenia wafted the bed,
mixing with the musk of our sex.
Later
we walked hand in hand by the lake past
the patinaed water nymph, gabbling ducks,
as the orange-red carp nosed like submarines.
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Biography
Christopher
T. George was born in Liverpool, England in 1948 and emigrated
to the United States in 1968. A resident of Baltimore, Maryland,
his poetry has been published in Poet Lore, Lite, Maryland
Poetry Review, Smoke, and Bogg, and online at Crescent
Moon Journal, Electric Acorn, Melic Review, Painted Moon Review,
Pierian Springs, the poetry(WORM), and Web Del Sol
Review. Chris is the Editor of Desert Moon Review
http://www.desertmoonreview.com
and an editor at Writers Block Poetry Workshop http://www.webdelsol.com/bbs/arts/arts.cgi.
He is also the lyricist for "Jack-The Musical,"
written with French composer Erik Sitbon http://www.jack-themusical.com
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