Koolest of the Kool

2 songs & a Poem ……

Koolest of the Kool

Youth cascades
Through our consciousness
Wet freshly cut grass
Is a natural Time Machine

I
Remember you
You and Rock and Roll
You were the Koolest of the Kool
And I was the fool
To insecure and embarrassed
Of who I was
Not really knowing
Confidence and trying Much too hard
To be Nice

Everyone knew about
“The Bad Boyz”
But
Bad Gurlz?

That was a NEW Animal

You had the eyes
Of a wolf
The talons of
An Owl
A hunger that knew
Pot, marijuana, cigarettes
RUSH

We killed bottles of
Strawberry Boons Farm
Strawberry Schnapps
Strawberry lipsmackers
Even
LSD

DID you remember
The Purple Double Barrel
Microdots

Mescaline, and phantom paisley
That ran like traffic
Up and Down the walls

I do.

I remember YOU!
You were Too hip
Intimidating even
Perfect Skin
Wild Smile
Electric Youth
Feminine extrarordiaire

We gathered in circles
Hypnotized by Black Sabbath
And Ozzy Osbourne
Held the answers to
The
Universe

We were
Poor latchkey kids of our generation
We had No expectations
Other than survival and
Living in the moment

The wafting fragrance
On the breeze
Brings me to my knees
And

I choke up

Thinking of you…..

The way a girl challenges a boy
The way a bull stares at the matodore
The red cape crumbled on my lawn
And I never saw you again

Was it Thirty years later?

I found you passed on
Ozzy had sung
She’s Gone
Changed
And in his solo career?

Suicide Solution

I wipe my eyes
And look to the floor
I find no humour now
About how you
Became the soundtrack
Of my life

A stranger thanked me
Thanked me one day

Told This BOY
How special he made
her daughter feel

I didn’t know
I was lost
So clueless
So naive

Personally trapped
In his Own private HELL
of
Just how much he adored her
And her mysteries

We grew in the same town
On Same Circle

Tell me

How is it
That I’m still Here

And
You’re

Gone

Matthew P. Bowers