Song of the Sad Slide Guitar by Soma

I.

Cute, thick women
Sitting under trees
Walking on paths.
To Where?

Black Francis is breathing
Hard into my ears.
Surrealism and Dreams
        FOREVER!
Long live dreams!
Let them get us
Through all the days.

II.

        The organization of people
        Leads directly to Fascism
(That uppercase “F” gives it…
        CREDIBILITY)

Sunlight will get me through the
        day.
What will get me through the
        night?

III.

Booze, drugs, and literature
Are getting me through.
My Regiment.
“When I smoke, I’m walking
around IN the book. The
words, sentences, paragraphs.”
“Xanax is my deodorant.”


-A. Ferlinghetti