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The Mysterious Sliding Girl
Contributed by
redlantern2051
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Tuesday, 16th December 2003 @ 08:05:35 AM in AEST
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The Mysterious Sliding Girl
FRONT PAGE NEWS!
BIG, BIG SELL!
It’s the Famous Case
Of the Mysterious Sliding Girl
Take a DNA sample
Take a Swear by God Testimony
Because she’s in your kitchen right now,
She’s making coffee for herself at 5AM
When everyone else
In the house
Is making hay
With the Sandman sprinkling magic roses
Across closed eyes
& Dreaming of angels
Is the Fashion right now,
So get hip to that
It’s the Famous Case
Of the Mysterious Sliding Girl,
She’s such a poet
With the way she spreads out her Morrissey DVD’s
And she’s so proud of 1992
When he took her all alone by the hand
And the way she turns away from the video
Like Kurt Cobain
Make Style and/or Cool a Cardigan Anti-Thing
That and Teen Spirit
The two big bangs of my Pop Music
It’s a Rumor
They saw the Mysterious Sliding Girl
Down by the Old Quarter
But careful young man with your hopes so high
She’s aware of being Wanted
& She’s got long blonde hair
& She’s beautiful and thin today,
Maybe you can do lunch
Maybe you can fill up the empty place
With photographs and anecdotes
I just love the part where we dish the dirt
I just go wild when you put on a grim face
And those eyes light up like blue lasers
You can kiss me anytime you like
22, about to die
22, through the green light
22, out to buy drugs for the group
22, car hits you from side-on
22, nobody hurt
At least on the surface
22, go to the party anyway
With blood through your hair
& A heart like a hooker who just got paid
Meet the Sliding Girl by the drug machine
22, everything else so different
Forever and forever
Amen
It’s the Famous Case
Of the Mysterious Sliding Girl,
And she almost got away again
I got guys who swear to God they took her out in 3 rounds
But I guess you want some evidence
Well, I was there with her, all alone by the 24-hour chemist shop
As the clock struck 3AM
And I thought, it’s all a Time Machine
Breathing out a frosty whiteness
Buying condoms because someone was about to get *****
Not me thank God
It’s the Famous Case
Of the Mysterious Sliding Girl
Oh, you might meet someone out there
Who has heard her code
And the bus station by the signs that said something catchy like…
If not us, then who
If not now, then when
If not here, then where
It’s a safe house for a couple of people now,
And we meet like friendly strangers
Alien to each other
All carrying real knives & comics & ready to bust out wild Wolverine moves
Nobody really saying anything
About anything important
Because somewhere there’s a recording machine
It’s the Famous Case
Of the Mysterious Sliding Girl
Go back in Time
Go all Secret Origin
And the first boyfriend was a real hunk
Who thought you were mature but cold
And the real one thought you lived in real small world
Like Kandor City in the Superman comics
But you’d seen half the episodes of Lois and Clark
Including the one in the 5th Season where Clark speaks just to you
And it was worse than that
Because the aliens got to the producers,
And the producers got to you
Sneaky paranoia
Sponsored by Nike
Endorsed by Andre Agassi
It’s the Famous Case
Of the Mysterious Sliding Girl
Years could pass
And you could still feel her
Like a tattoo on your back that was a Phoenix burning
The Mysterious Sliding Girl
And if you stay,
She might act like Bono in that video where all U2 were angels
Help everything out, and then fall back down to Earth
And if you say,
All the right things, in the right way
She might touch you in the kitchen
As you look in those blue wild ocean eyes
Because that’s what fans do
It’s the Famous Case
Of the Mysterious Sliding Girl
Me, I always had my Suspicions
I was a half-baked Hercule Poroit
My brain loaded on a combo of dope and love,
It never made sense to me
Where she went in the down time
I followed her down to the river once
Made me feel like stalker
But I had my bet on her being a ghost
And I had my rep down on her reaching the Coast
Vanishing out when we needed her the most
But it makes sense now
She hit the water and faded away
I saw her smoke a cigarette and then there was nothing there
And if it had been a few years later
And if I had been one of those people in America who thought the X-Files were real
I would have called Mulder
And we all could have taken photographs
And then we could have gone home
Half-way wise
It’s the Famous Case
Of the Mysterious Sliding Girl
She blows in with the wind
And she leaves when times-have-changed
But she’s always available for concerts
And she saw Bob Dylan up close twice
Says she likes his country stuff
From around 1969
And she wears a skeleton ring
With black jewel eyes
And if you got too close
She smelt of something beautiful and deadly
It happened to me one night
And I saw the way she had been alive since 1922
And I saw the way we all really think we have lived before
I don’t have any more answers than that,
I don’t know any more songs to sing about her,
The Mysterious Sliding Girl
I never had a real address
I only had this couch or that couch in a great long line
Leading back to myself
Everything about her was about Nirvana
O she has got an angel’s face,
Read my innermost feelings between the tea-leaves of her passing.
(David Finn, 2003)
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Re: The Mysterious Sliding Girl
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by Jellybellyprincess on
Tuesday, 16th December 2003 @ 05:15:45 PM AEST
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That has got to be the longest poem I've ever read, and get this--- it was totally worth it! Seriously, I'm the world's worst ADD case when it comes to reading poetry. But this was amazing. But---
I strongly disagree with the drug use here, but if it's used to portray a negative/tragic tone then I'm all for it (drugs kill people, slowly but surely, you know that, I know that, we all know that, and I could rant all day on how much I hate the idea of them.... but anyways---)
Aside from that this poem was fabulous. I just couldn't tear my eyes away. The way you used so many pop culture references. Kind of like a lot of poets use nature references to like the moon or sky or whatever.... My favorite was Hercule Poirot. Either that or Bob Dylan..... Because as we all know, Bob Dylan rules.
Anyways... (see what I mean? total ADD.... lol)
I enjoyed this write tremendously.
God bless,
Ellen |
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Re: The Mysterious Sliding Girl
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by Redlantern2051 on
Tuesday, 16th December 2003 @ 09:18:42 PM AEST
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| Thankyou very much Ellen. really appreciate you reading and responding++++Yes drug use is a small part of this poem, but its not really a great part of it-drugs were part of a scene, that distorted reality, the poem is kind of a reflection of that-personally I on't recommend drugs, and I have long been drug-free, so I guess it's a slightly negative light, although it is ambigious. Thankyou for noticing the pop culture references as well!!! i really enjoyed your response!!! :-) |
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