So may I introduce to you the act you’ve known for all these years…
– Paul McCartney
What if you learn
Sergeant Pepper is a woman,
bisexual myth-breaker
who has no guilt in pleasing a man
with her sophisticated mouth,
making a woman moan
with her underground hands?
Would you question
your belief in astrology,
memories of free spirits freak-dancing
to With a Little Help from My Friends
in a park full of flowers and Frisbees?
Was that really you holding hands
with a leopard in bellbottoms,
peace sign glittering on her cheek?
The woman you were supposed to meet
at the top of the Empire State Building
never showed, now it’s too late
for Valentines and dark chocolate,
you’ll settle for a bi-polar girl at a bus stop
whose brassy appearance is stronger
than your cholesterol medicine.
Camouflaged beside you on your water bed
Ms. Pepper whispers:
I am tired of your adoration, you spineless fuck
and turns her vibrator up.
The background music of your life
once Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
is now hip-hop and grunge.
Your records are warped and
Pepper hurls vinyl albums
through your bedroom window,
smashes your mirror with her face,
blood, lipstick on her hands and mouth.
Instead of flower child, vampire.
Everything soft is pierced.
Dreams fall like friends
who’d overdosed
on the wrong kind of jolt.
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“Analog Beatles” image by Flickr user Kevin Dooley
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Lenny DellaRocca’s work has appeared in numerous literary magazines including, Fairy Tale Review, Albatross, Nimrod, Poet Lore, Apalachee Quarterly, Poem, Sun Dog, Seattle review and many others. Some of his poems are forthcoming in The Bitchin’ Kitsch, Blueshift Journal, The Potomac: a Journal of Politics and Poetry, Blue Fifth Review, and Waterways. His chapbook, The Sleep Talker, is available at Night Ballet Press. His poem “The Wonderful Viola Player was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Chiron Review. DellaRocca is former president of the Hannah Kahn Poetry Foundation which was instrumental in bringing to South Florida such poets as Denise Duhamel, Yusef Komunyakaa, Janet Holmes, Carolyn Wright, Lyn Lifshin, and Albert Goldbarth.
