Levi Strauss Shuffle

After bangin
a button box
for the day
it
came time
to check
out
some
new threads

levi strauss
it’s
time
to
hit the local brasserie
grab a pint or two
sing mean woman blues

don’t let me spoil
the jute joint foil
atmosphere of your scene folks

tonight’s my free ticket
my freedom pass
to
slip through
bar style doors
…
enter

act one

tall cool man
khakis to match my
camouflaged heart of stone
a
panther on the prowl
slinkin round my optimistic view

how goes it
says he
not in question
of me
pausing eyes
to
interrogate
my female disposition

I
passed a terminal look his way
na, na
but that didn’t sway
this suave predator
with the Jack Daniel
belt buckle
catchin my eye

what say we
split the scene
to greener pastures?

mister Jack lay
heavy on his breath
but not one sway of imbalance
did I detect
and felt as if this meeting
was not by chance
somehow
now
as if I knew him
from a past life
if ya catch my drift?