Po' Boy in Paris 1975

Copyright 1975

Just a poor boy in Paris
thinking of Marlon Brando
(what can a white male expat do)
and Brian Jones
[[god rest his troubled soul]]
(could I play the
Rolling Stones' blues
on the Left Bank
 or imagine Miles Davis sittin' in
with the Funk Brothers doin' the Temps),
channelling Sartre and de Beauvoir
sipping coffee at the cafe
and envisioning Andy Warhol
sublimated into
Francis Bacon
and Mark Rothko
with a touch of Dali
in the recipe.
An impossible stew
that I never was able to brew...