Looking Back Poetic Prose

Looking Back

Theyre all gone, or goingthe Entertain Group, that is: with their movies, novels, boxing, poetry and songs: folks like Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, the Beatles and soon to be the Rolling StonesRick Nelson, Neil Diamond, the Fleetwoods, and Sonny James, Buddy Holly, and the Everly Brothers

And the cowboys: like Johnny Cash, Tex Ritter, Red Foley, Johnny Horton, Conway Twitty, and Eddie Arnold with his, Cattle Call, yes folks like that, and theyre not all going to Heaven, just because people want to think the best; its not the way it isMerle Haggard, Marty Robbins; they all had more sins than I could countour heroeshow and what do we teach our children, when this is all we got

And the rhythm and blues boys, from way down south, like J.T. Hooker and Nat King Colecool, but thats about it; call it culture, but in a hundred years or so, when people look back, what then my friend? Crap.

And the writers who had so much trouble with booze, like William Faulkner, Earnest Hemmingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald (and Mary Renault, a lesbian); they were all in my timenow looking back; nothing like nowadays, with the crap they write

And the poets, like: Robert W. Service, Robert Bly, Carl Sandburg (I remember him in grade school), and Frost, and Donald Hall, Cesar Vallejo, and Georg Trakl, Dylan Thomas, Clark Ashton Smith, George Sterling, and Dennis L. SilukSiluk, did I say Silukwoopswhat did they write, was it right?

The movie stars, like John Wayne, and Natalie Wood; Brando, and Randoff Scott; Rock Hudson, and James Dean, they all influenced the scene, not thinking of the harm they could do to the many; mostly money, money and more moneyand there was plentythe devil pays well

The Boxers that kept us eye to eye on every punch, like, Joe Louis, Clay, and Norton, Frazer and ListenDempsey, all punks, from the blockwanta-to-bees, and became heroes to some of us I remember them allI was therethere when each an d everyone fell, fell, and fell hard

They all fought so hard to make it to the top, what was up there? Besides whores, booze, and drugs? Money, moneyyes, but did they find God? Most lost their family and souls, somewhere along the way. Some ended up in Timbuktu, or in some off the wall small apartment, all alone. If they left any money, most of their children now are spending their fortunes and acting like fools. What a life.

And what is left, not much out there but a bunch of cream-puffs; what happened to the family?

And the wars and presidents: I was around for the Korean War, in Vietnam, and now three in the roll: the Prison Gulf I and II, and Afghanistan. There will be more of course, right around the corner; terrorism is not going away; not yet, not today. It will bring in the rest of the fools out there to have their say. Presidents and Kings, and folks from the United Nations, and France and England, Russia for sure and China the Bulldog from Asia, will all have their day, their say: we are just waiting for the countdown to Armageddon; its not all that far off in the distance; not very far away.

As I look back, there really isnt much more to say, but we had a good ol time, a hell of a day, in the USA; I wonder what God will say [?

Dennis Siluk, http://dennissiluk.tripod.com

Author:: Dennis Siluk
Keywords:: Poetic Prose
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