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Old Warrior of North Beach
(For Bob Kaufman)

A.D. Winans

He walks the streets of North Beach
Eyes scanning the streets
Like a submarine periscope
His mind heavy as an anchor dragging
The bottom of the ocean floor

Forgotten rebel playing old ballads
In the shipwreck of his heart
His mind destroyed by shock treatments
And one too many police batons

He has imagined conversations with Miles Davis
Rides the ferry with Jack Kerouac
Gets off at Bourbon Street
To down a drink with Jack Micheline

He walks the battlefields with Walt Whitman
Roams the plains with Red Cloud
In search of the last Buffalo
Forever walking the streets of North Beach
In search of the elusive ginger fish smell
Death a sightless chauffeur waits like
A concubine facing down a faceless John

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