brother compatriot of old images of you in chords of led zeppelin & that zeitgeist that was so in front of our face we just thought "cool, now" you & i had the same eyes and eyehooks & we spoke in the same timbre if in different octaves & i remember: those blues possessed you it made you dance the cynic's dance you were a long-haired caveman in levi's & the steel strings of the british invasion wiped you out, sailed you straight out to sea you were high before you even started but when you started... you never stopped it has been a century since ive known you you are an artifact in 1970s technicolor on a tube-TV recollection in my mind with the harps of led zeppelin being so goddamn maudlin: it's no wonder i love you. -------------------------- * dedicated to smj |