Hunter S. Thompson's Muse Stops By to Commiserate On the Eve of Blake's Death As Told to Robert Service

Hunter Thompson's Muse Stops By to Commiserate On the Eve of Blake's Death As Told to Robert Service

It was in a moment dark, I couldn't see the sky
an angel hovered overhead, she was the reason why
She brought me hope of the returning of such fun
and a bottle of gin, and a loaded gun

With the .45 I shot the beefeater, and drank from the hole in his heart
so bitter like my own, but what a place to start!
Then Jose C came slurping by, with his girlfriend Margarita,
but I got sick of them after a while, and became a Technicolor repeater...

That Fat Bastard Shiraz, his redness stained the floor
irking my little angel, who showed him quick the door.
My Technicolor yawning was ever “abondanzo,”
I briefly felt, for one brief click, I was living my life gonzo!

We drank and shot, and shot and drank until the night was dawn
and passed out in the front yard after puking on the lawn.
Our bullet dreams chased doggie licks, aroused by the neighbor's barfeater,
when down came the curtain and the lights went out, thanks for watching misere theater!

Tonight's show was brought to you by pain and greed and loss
and the letters L and D, and some tacos that we tossed,
and by little shoulder angels, and the little guns they tote,
and a finger to pull a trigger, and that's all that she wrote.

60 plus degrees - a SoCal December in Maryland.

Nothing new, but after the recent weather we had, I find this oldie apropos.


Heat Wave

it’s a heat wave in December
so people hit the streets -
tank tops, sandals, gaucho girls
no cars, just on our feets.
we cool ourselves with melted snow
and chase it down with gin.
we praise the greenhouse, “Glory be”
and celebrate in sin.

it’s a heat wave in the winter
the ozone layer’s gone,
I think I’m getting sunburn
from my head down to my thong.
I’d really like to see it snow
it would be a thrill,
global warming go away
and let us humans chill.

it’s a heat wave in December
and cats are chasing dogs
the geese all fly in circles
while sleds are pulled by frogs .
we cool ourselves with melted snow
and chase it down with gin
we praise the greenhouse, “Glory be”
and celebrate in sin.
I’d really like to see it snow
it would be a thrill
so global warming go away
and let us humans chill!

c. 2004