Jukebox Music
Jukebox Music is a collection of poems written in a lyrical yet gritty and uncensored free-flow style. Like all of Tony Nesca's books it is a unique and singular work, full of music, sexual energy and tons of fringe-living barroom experiences.
"The musical background is a strong influence in Nesca’s poetry. In the present collection there are references to Stan Getz, Billie Holliday, and Count Basie as well as to more current groups...."..." Tony Nesca is original and in the best sense tuneful...The musical influence is also apparent in the elision of superfluous words and in the multiply hyphenated words that slip and slide around precise meanings...."
BOB WILLIAMS - THE COMPULSIVE READER
Available in hardcover ($30.00) and paperback ($16.00
An excerpt from "Jukebox Music"...
SAD SONG
got jazzed all around livin’ easy,
got jazzed man,
she says do it like this baby, just like this!
phone bill too heavy
brain gone missing
long slit vodka-orange
sinatra manhattan crazy,
maybe mind gone wild sharp-left
secrets in the prairie sky bookstore
lights up happy living
she walks out of the dream straight
into blow-job trumpet like chet baker
high on shrooms, ain’t nothing working baby,
sun comes through torn blinds
coffee-can half empty
bird with crystal-white memory sees me cry
whiskey-stain on the kitchen floor
black and white cartoons on the television
old dog howls
burnt toast flies through the air
half-empty marijuana bag vodka on the brain
her toenails painted dark purple
his beard lined with grey
hangover-morning settles into the room
“hello” she says,
“i love you” he says,
the sadness begins…
JENNIE SQUEEZING TIGHT
jennie sweet-music blue eyes
got thing for mike he easy gliding downtown hustle
leans back lights cigarette
still satisfied he says,
jennie sweet sex running
spreads her legs to the a.m. music
too damn stoned for you
and for your techno bullshit
driving mike insane he getting busted
smoking pot on the downtown streets,
jennie dancing sweet-water-pools sex-romp
spreads her legs to the a.m. silence
still satisfied she smiles
mike grinning moves forward
jennie squeezing tight legs wrapped around the sleepless music…
LIKE SUGARCANE SWEET
take me back when naked thinking
not so easy,
when brown-green eyes would smile at me,
first thing in the morning gray shadows in corner
sunlight coming through in thin stripes
she used to smile
her eyes brown-green in the dim sunlight...
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JUKEBOX MUSIC
PUBLISHED BY SCREAMIN' SKULL PRESS
COPYRIGHT 2005 TONY NESCA
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