They found his body
beneath the bed
bent double like a discarded
paper clip
in a New Orleans flop-house.
Tell the people:
the original NY Doll
the Heartbreaker
the gypsy king who was born too loose
is dead and gone.
Rigor mortis set in and
so did the conspiracy theories.
The roaches were out the wood-work
each with a different version of the same story.
But all I know is
when they carried
out his pale corpse
the body bag was
three feet in length;
and all his guitars were gone.
It’s true what he said:
‘You Can’t Put Your Arms Around A Memory’
but believe me, that night,
high or straight,
each of us tried.
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