Listening To The Beatles

Listening To The Beatles In An Isla Vista, California Cafe



paul & george & john & ringo
are singing love songs
they composed to evening news
& life in The Big City

life on the farm & Life, Life
before during & after The Revolution
there's always a woman thinking something
feeling something-----behind the scenes

or right smack inside The Big Picture
a love song is on the verge
of becoming itself on the verge of being
a love song on the verge of midnight:

the gray hair of our Beatles lights up
the dark fuzzy world of war
& blurred intentions of smudged promises
the song is torch to doubt's mud

as brilliance invades the suburbs
with the shattering illumination
of Love's last light bulbs
Love's last lingering light bulbs


RLG Copyright 1985 printed in LIFE/ART (1986)