She Changed The Game

Through avenues
The muse

Punk Rock electric
Igniting the fuse

A young poet
Incommunicado
The unique View

Tattoo
Kung Fu
Typewriter
and pen

Marking up Tinsel Town
One written word at a time

Sunset and Hollywood boulevards
Playgrounds for ghosts
and teens

Iconic brilliance recording
Scene after scene

Capture raw images
The art of simplicity

Autobiographical notations
Personal Universal

Published with beauty
True with experience

The depth and validity
Of each moment
Dripping off each page

These weren’t poems
Of lofty romance
Or silly rhyme schemes

These words were like bullets

Powerful Explosive

THAT Los Angeles has changed
Barely recognizable

For better
Or
Worse

But

Her writing
Her captured memories

Have immortalized
A place… a moment in time

That will forever stay with me
Imprinted upon my mind

The day I will always recall
Finding truth
Coloured with heart and soul

In a small bookstore
on a forgotten street

It was in North Hollywood
But
Two Blocks East
Of Vine

*(Matthew Bowers)*~93
©2021

Pictured
Iris Berry & Charles Bukowski