Rocking Rain

EDELTRAUD 3 =>> THE PSYCHOBITCH => POST PELOPONNESIAN
Athens (Patission Avenue)
Wednesday morning
11/12/2014

ROCKING RAIN

This avenue is rocking in the rain,
I've seen it rocking since I was a kid,
I never had for these any disdain,
and so I took it on to play the lead.

The avenue, the rain and the rocking,
tonight tell me stories unheard of,
I think their style is somehow mocking,
they make fun of me and my dry cough:

"Oh sure, you have been good as lead guitarist,
you gave it all, perhaps you should retire,
no place for a communist or tzarist,
this avenue musicians cannot hire.

"This bakery goes on 24/7,
the taxis stop, the people buy hot bread,
affordable like whores, cheaper than heaven,
this rain can console you till you're dead.

"You have enough to buy your tobacco,
to drink espresso, or to bribe some hood,
Vanzetti is gone, so is Nicola Sacco,
politics did not do them any good.

"Bob Dylan, Jane Fonda and Marcuse,
they all transformed from soft to cuddly left,
remember some cold night in Leverkusen?
Your heart been stolen, you condoned the theft.

"You are a dying breed, my lead musician,
no one has any use of your guitar,
you couldn't be a post-modern fake magician,
so fuck off soon, be gone and stay just far.

The day belongs to Putin and Obama,
tomorrow maybe to the Chinese,
America, you slept like a fat mama,
and left your children begging on their knees".

Thus how it sang tonight's rocking rain,
accompanying my steps to my front door,
I gave it the two fingers for refrain,
and said, "Fuck off, I've heard it all before".

Leverkusen = town in Westfall, Germany.