The Dinner Jacket Poems: Featuring the Short Story, 'Better Now, Better Now Than Dead'

By eff Wayne-Patrick Russell

THEDINNER JACKET POEMS
the CHANTILCLEER POET
JEFF WAYNE-PATRICK RUSSELL

Jeff Wayne-Patrick Russell aka the Chantilcleer poet starts hisDinner Jacket Poemswith a boyhood visit to his grandmothers apartment in Glendale, CA where hes fascinated by the Knockittttty, knock knocks of woodpeckers pecking on telephone poles in her neighborhood. With yells of silence he takes us on a quest to the streets of Gold where he dreams of a Coliseum in Eternity.

The pilgrim does not travel alone. There are desert paths to be sure where a snake slithers past the moon, leaving them both to crawl home to caves and holes. But there are also Happy Hour epiphanies where a margarita dancer shares with him a glimpse of her beauty and moments of sarcastic bliss among friends over a good-beer.

There are times the quester needs to be in solitude:

And if you want to talk to me
Find me
In person

Maybe Australia

There are times he seeks solidarity with a significant other:

ohhhhhhhh Lord
your girllllllllllllllllllllll for meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

When shes found and Reeling and rocking as our flame grows higher than others he leads Make our flame last.
My favorite poem of his near the end of the book is MEAND DECIBEL TETON...where lying on a stone he drinks from a cactus and with gaze fixed upon a spiraling hawk pleads
Hawk, stay long,
Hawk, stay long
Hawk circling,
Circling
Hawk
Return me to myself.

I couldnt agree more.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Oct 22, 2013
• ISBN: 9781491817261

eff Wayne-Patrick Russell

I am a Writer/Author/Poet. Published three" books, "Second Hand Renaissance, the last hippie of California arrt'" and "SOUTHERNNORTHERN NIGHTS, A CAL-TEXAS POETS PROSPECTUS OF PERSPICACIOUS" and "THE DINNER JACKET POEMS" with the short story "BETTER NOW, BETTER NOW THAN DEAD." I reside in Los Angeles, CA. I am 44 years old and will be writing for life. Enjoy them all. Thanks, Jeff Wayne-Patrick Russell.

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