Ziggy Years

we were there, and then
Sitting on cushions, flat as pancakes
Ziggy on the turntable,
With a stacker
lady stardust
Drew curtains
Kissed us goodnight.....
it wasn't good for us
yet we knew,
blew ourselves away
and anyway
Ziggy, gave us five more years

So we're sitting here
Playing games, lost
CD's borrowed from a neo child
Compiled from dreams in a dingy flat
Splat on the floor of re heated beans
Faded jeans (genes?), tie dyed
And skin tight dreams
Bathrooms with pier room halls of mirrors
And coat hanger zips
Hips in single sizes
Surprises in single file
Of

Lady Stardust
And spiders
And Mars?
And dinner she served
Cheap and Italian
Colour's of faded suites
Cushions with bones
Angular, sharp
We laugh

As spaghetti often does
We didn't know curls and twirls
Or penne from who knows
It came in curls or twirls
Or a ladies beehive
Behave
It could have gone this way or that
It all became
So flat
.




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Written on 2012-05-25 at 21:07

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Melie Bacon
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Times have certainly changed since then...the only consistency in life is inconsistency..as have most of us Babyboomers. We've experienced an epoch in history like none other, a period of social enlightenment/awareness and a freedom of expression unparalled in modern civilization--especially in the mediums of music and literature! Write on!

Mel
2012-06-11



I don't know how I can be nostalgic for your past, but I am. This makes me so. Or, I guess it's that this brings back my own version (which wasn't that different). I love the imagery which comes in hints, and some is kept personal which is good.

Instead of Ziggy I had Layla. Spaghetti (sticks to the wall) is the universal first meal.

Oh, this has it all, well done.
2012-05-27


jenks The PoetBay support member heart!
But it didn't flat elle :)
Why do you think we're here now?
I know he was looney for a while but ziggy played guitar and began to wake the monsters.
I saw him on his moonlight tour...what an audience :)

i'm ancient...
still wonder about that major tom :)
2012-05-26