Movie posters taped to the confectionary stand
James Dean in Nehru jacket
hands in jeans nonchalant
reckless rebel, suicide angel
Lawrence of Arabia
white robed grandeur
Saharan desert tea-time bedouin
Audrey Hepburn in repose at breakfast
filing her french nails, bringing a little class
to the sock-it-to-me 50`s drive-in
full of kids weened on Jetsons,
and Lucy bouffant hairdo zaniness
now fiddling with zippers, lips, and nipples
the attendant says `out` to one couple
almost steaming up the car,
not steaming it up enough
`this ain`t no topless bar!`
go find a motel and take your
double love pump action there,
John Wayne on the screen guns a firing
and I`m drinking pop, chewing tooty fruity
with a bunch of pals, farting up the car
orange fingers of dawn
creeping over the movie screen imagining
Love American Style,
amid cut-up impressions
of Mr. Ed, Gomer Pyle
(This poem is for a poetry competition, according to whose rules you must use the following words: bouffant, Lawrence of Arabia, Love American Style, tooty fruity, Ed, topless, suicide, rebel, sock it to me, orange and Nehru Jacket + orange in the title.)
