MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
Written in April 2005, at the height of the Bush tyranny. I thought it could be retired when Obama was elected. I was wrong...
When I first met Abbie Hoffman
It was 1965
Three years later at Grand Central
We just bare got out alive
I'd dropped several hits of acid
And at midnight less a half
Met a girl whose name...I can't recall
Took her home to fuck and laugh
When the cops came in, clubs swinging
We were just ten minutes gone
Now they've murdered Clark and Hampton
and poor Abbie, he's moved on.
Do you remember how, for Cat Ballou,
Lee Marvin sobered up?
Had his sidekick lace his corset?
Slipped his balls into a cup?
Now Jane Fonda's well past sixty,
But she still is lookin fine.
Claims she ain't been laid in six years,
Jesus, baby, it's past time.
Though her hips be not as narrow
Nor her eyes now quite as wide,
we'd still saddle up for Janey
And ride all night to her side.
Kid Shaleen is slowly waking.
Abbie's ghost still gives advice.
Let us be now what we once were,
No more frightened little mice.
It's round two of revolution
Time has come for throwin' down.
Strap your balls high and your guns low
'Cause the boys are back in town