conceptualized by Yoko
a quarter century after
Chapman blew him away
as their limo drew up
to the Dakota
that cold December night:
multiple Lennons parade
on stage. Blacks, whites,
and women play Johnny Skiffle
of the Silver Beatles;
audiences lurch
in search of Lennon.
The night he deserted
Yoko for a pack of cigs:
multiple Johns walking
the streets of Manhattan;
a hooker at 8th & 42nd
jiggles her gold lamé ass:
"Wanna date, honey child?"
The Dovedale and Quarry boy
set loose in Gotham and LA,
watching the wheels, riding
the rock and roll serpent:
uppers and downers, LSD, coke,
lifetimes spent in purgatory.
On his birthday, his second
son Sean wailed first
at New York Hospital.
Sean and John, John and Sean,
"Beautiful, beautiful boy."
Ocean child Bermuda, captaining
his own yacht; Liverpool lad,
son of a goneaway seaman,
-- his Mum Julia slammed into
by a car driven
by a drunk off-duty copper;
his Dad ran off to sea --
long before the fame.
Lennon in the fog
of Liverpool and LA:
John in search of self,
drunk and on a bender,
or lost smoking pot
in the Dakota, only
to find himself with
"Starting Over," his big
comeback. . . Click
of the Charter
Arms revolver.
"Mr. Lennon. . .?"
Christopher T. George
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