San Francisco Postcard © 2002 Marc Ellis
(To Robert Desnos)
At City Lights Bookstore,
A woman in Raven feather suspenders told me;
“Please attend to your own cephalopods sir,”
My feathers were purchased by a richer man than you,”
On the sidewalk, a voice without a body announced:
“For your safety and the safety of others,
Lions are burning in distant forests of tears,”
The view atop Telegraph Hill,
Fills me with silence,
Makes me humble,
Then winking, slithers away
Like a salamander;
Chinatown has spread has her plump, tawny thighs,
To welcome many visitors through her royal gate;
But being a poet, I prefer to enter from the rear,
Riding down Nob Hill in a cable car;
The picturesque hills mill
Around the city,
Like day laborers,
Then vanish
In dark tides;
San Francisco at night.
The blue bay,
A lovely spinster,
Awaiting the man of her dreams;
He has arrived!
I want to love you San Francisco!
I want to flood you with my being,
I want to swim in your passion waters;
I want to scatter my seed
Across your lovely body;
Then, satisfied, smiling
Like a Mississippi River Bullfrog;
I will hop back to the warm,
Mud swamps of Louisiana;
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• Born: Wichita Falls, Texas - 1952
• Raised: Denver, California, Kansas
• Home: New Orleans
• Occupation: Immigration Lawyer
• Edu: Troy State U., Univ. of Alabama Law School
• Writing - 6 plays:
"The Pollster" (Semi-finalist, Southern Playwright's Competition 1993),
"The Ghost of Jean Paul Sartre Visits an Alabama Convenience Store" (1994);
"The Focus Group" (Performed 1994 Dramarama Festival New Orleans),
"A Man of His Times" (Performed, 1995 Dramarama Festival, New Orleans),
"The Hat", performed 1998 Freeport McMoran Theatre, New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center;
"Double Espresso"; Staged Reading scheduled for October 1999 at C.A.C.
Numerous Musical Compositions, including "The Fantomas Waltz" and "HOY!", composed for film: "F", Clementine Productions, Hollywood California, Howard A. Rodman Writer/Director, starring Terrence Stamp, Produced by Laurie Parker. The Fantomas.Org/Pont Mirabeau Station @ MP3.COM
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