Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Catcher in the Rise



Aloha Poets,
The apartment building in Hawaii where John Lennon's killer worked as a night security guard in late 1980
before he murdered John at the Dakota apartment building in New York City December 8, 1980.
The killer by his own admission was inspired by reading JD Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye" in his time before the murder.
JD Salinger recently died of natural causes after living as a recluse in a small house in New Hampshire, a far cry from a former Hawaii night security guard's identity with "The Catcher in the Rye" and John Lennon's Dakota apartment building in New York City.
JD Salinger only wrote one novel, John Lennon only had one life.

Housing for a Rotor

Well I guess its about time the plot thickens
Rules of thumb for a sum of a number of chickens
The oncoming carry the bones in town;s parade
Into the cauldron where church bells are made

After the silence will the blade finally hold?
The impact is incalculable or so I'm told
As they callously cull all calls to arms
And come up to play from down on the farms

Such a small parade from small remote houses
Each alone at their hone as if small mouses
To scorn a future life in a place so scary
Parents encourage their children to marry

Extra reclusivity guns for the unshunned
As wind turbines fan the flames from the sun
Solar panels come along for a silky ride
Obsessively articulated as if positioning a new bride

How to wear this heartache of paradox
That irresistible ship of rotors in a box
Love crazed boys show off in those planes
From her window only wind turbines on plains

Answers lie somewhere in cloud spattered skies
A heartache fits all, out there its all one size
Belle of the ball and ball bearings of jet stream
Get your bearings as expectation reigns supreme

2 comments:

  1. I read once, about JD Salinger book significance with John Lennons murder, but not so much about the killer lived in Hawai'i. good 2know. love JhnLennon

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  2. ...yes, thank you, a dirty little secret only a few know about. I worked across the street at the time.
    Rck on...bro Jhn

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