Cajun Mutt Press Featured Writer 12/20/21

Strawberry Sun Day

Magical Sponge Vehicle Express

perfect day to ditch school
verdugo hills high, boring as frost-bit hell
dolts, future socialites, lame jock fighter pilots
all n all a decrepit faded-tan prison complex
tucked into nowhere-dom’s So. Cal foothills

debbie brown and i lit out, lunchtime,, stopping at
her house
ripping off our overalls, going gone
we were fucking like no-tomorrow to anthem of the
sun 6/8, her psychedelicized bedroom

in red striped velour and jeans she told me
she’d scored a few tabs of strawberry mescaline
from lucky
the day was ripe for taking

we turned our animal instincts
to the LA zoo

giraffe necks stretching to san berdoo…
eyelashes batting double time
camel humps doing the strawberry sun watusi
dry burnt saharas, dehydrated wonderland
mirage
shaky knee’d we shivered

lions, tigers and bears uh huh
zoo faded-tan prison complex,
set em free daddy’o

all this in an eternity.. a few hours

return to debbie’s, mellow blaze – we swam naked,
got out, threw on anthem of the sun and began
balling in 6/8.. again and again sundown
sound of the front door creaking
oh shit the ol mans home
and this ol man he played mean
big beer, gun tater-toter fearshit mean…
i scoot to the head
naked as a strawberry jaybird
debbie throws on a robe
and plays it like i’d stopped by for a swim
growling machine pa
smells otherwise
i figure i’m cooked

at home over roast beef dinner, my pop says ‘you
shouldn’t fuck around over there, he’s liable to
yank a gun and blow your brains out’

cherry on a strawberry sun day

©2021 Michael D. Amitin All rights reserved.

Poet and musician Michael D. Amitin graveled the roads of the American West from California- east through the smoky burgs and train depot diners of Western Colorado where he lived before moving to Paris, France. Amitin’s poems have been published in Poetry Pacific, California Quarterly, and others. A current collaboration with Parisian photographer Julie Peiffer has given rise to the “Riverlights” project.