04-23-2016, 11:21 AM
My Purple and Green
The time we moved from Cavendish
to Mansfield I lost all my vinyl.
Some Beatles survived, but only because Dad
insisted they were his.
There were early copies
of Hendrix, Neil Young, The Doors and Cream
that a sorta music mentor at work
had given me. All before
my time, but it was the eighties
and we wanted more
guitar.
When Prince went crazy
I found my purple banana
in a rare foldout copy
of 1999. I bought
the tapes the same day
so I could keep the vinyl mint.
I blame it on the move
but know it was my dad;
he’d joined a cult part-time
and everything was satanic
when it suited him. (though I admit
I’d taken acid by then, so his black and white
was my purple and green.)
I’d left the channel on until
he witnessed
Prince on MTV whacking off
his wailing purple guitar
and two days later the records were gone.
When he was really sick
toward the end
he thought the mower was possessed.
I let the grass grow till the dog turned green.
The time we moved from Cavendish
to Mansfield I lost all my vinyl.
Some Beatles survived, but only because Dad
insisted they were his.
There were early copies
of Hendrix, Neil Young, The Doors and Cream
that a sorta music mentor at work
had given me. All before
my time, but it was the eighties
and we wanted more
guitar.
When Prince went crazy
I found my purple banana
in a rare foldout copy
of 1999. I bought
the tapes the same day
so I could keep the vinyl mint.
I blame it on the move
but know it was my dad;
he’d joined a cult part-time
and everything was satanic
when it suited him. (though I admit
I’d taken acid by then, so his black and white
was my purple and green.)
I’d left the channel on until
he witnessed
Prince on MTV whacking off
his wailing purple guitar
and two days later the records were gone.
When he was really sick
toward the end
he thought the mower was possessed.
I let the grass grow till the dog turned green.