Ballad of the Broken Strings
By ralph
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Jackie and Jane dug Joni Mitchell
at the Coffee Cup Cafe
in New York
they promised each other they'd write songs
together
in the days before before heroin mixed with chalk
so they packed their guitars and headed out west
with sex and surfers in their hearts
in sad Santa
Monica Jane bought a harmonica
and Jackie a few poisoned
darts
they rented this cool condo in Glendale
and wrote a dirge called 'Blundering Joe'
the
needle of the numb, the hustle in the muscle
turned
California a rusty glow
*
one
year later at the Copper Penny
Jumping Jackie, Harmonica Jane
are waiting for the dealer the Pittsburgh stealer
the girl that dealt on the train
well the
Pittsburgh Stealer showed up late
said she won't be fixing
anymore
because she's met Jesus Christ on Venice Beach
something beautiful to live for
well
Jackie turned angry
punched the wall, Harmonica Jane just
laughed
the Pittsburgh Stealer slinked away
to make
a fortune in new age craft
sweating ,shaking Jackie
and Jane
went breaking into chemists in the cold
nowhere to live, nothing to give
guitars and
lipstick cheaply sold
they died in the Hollywood
Hills
turning tricks for a ten-dollar bag
an
Alabama man with a psychotic tan
strangled them with the
Union flag
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