Tribute: Van Morrison 2007Starts with this cage match:
"The old FNCMFPECDAA often runs the risk of wandering off the reservation and tonight’s fare is no exception. This came about as I noticed one of the current participants in the news this afternoon. I already had this topic in mind as a possibility but it sealed the dealio. Check your weapons at the door and wrap your mind around this deceptively simple match-up. (Pribek.net; )
"Van Morrison or Delbert McClinton?"
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Van Morrison at Thetford Forest, Saturday 9th June, 2007. Photography copyright Claire Borley
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Dear Jack:
Yes the choice is very clear to me… since I my first romantic kiss was with Sally Kerbow in 1967, and she had beautiful brown eyes… strawberry blond hair and the most interesting birth mark on her thigh. …so that
Brown Eyed Girl became our song… we were twelve.
Do any of you poets remember your first real Kiss? Out in the alley, somewhere a Radio… and before McClinton's Lay down Sally…?
Jack, what you are asking a Southern boy is too tightly wound in context of my blithering Stadium boychild meeting Sally under the seats, after hot days come cool nights, and swarms of bugs in the high field lights, and bats diving through the crazed moths to eat despite photo-phobia…
And Sally and I in total innocence trying what all the others tell us to do.. only to wonder why the heck memories stay in the Mind, as the Mind, so the Man, and Woman.
You are a sneaky one Boheme… Yes to everything Mr Direction says — and — Van Morrison divided by McClinton times three = Van Morrison …unless I
change my mind. Now you all know more about me than you ever could’ve wanted to know; for that I will understand why you might avoid me on the street.
pd-in-full Pat. Pending
