“Dear Phil”
Posted by John Dorsey on January 13, 2017 in Poetry, Pop Culture |
when i was a kid
my mother’s best friend
got arrested
for stalking phil collins
she would follow him
around the country
like the grateful dead
she talked about how they exchanged
mad passionate love letters
& how they were going to run away
to their own private island in florida
phil was a great lover
of sunshine and wrestling lyrics
like the alligators of summer
he just couldn’t let his female fans know
that his songs were all about her
they’d stop buying his records
we just nodded
when she told us
that we didn’t know
how the business worked
the last time she called
was right after hurricane andrew
by then she had left her husband
& was living in florida
phil would be joining her soon
she had written him just last week
he was a great lover, a real giver
& his fingers ran through her hair
like sunshine
beaming
through the clouds.
– John Dorsey
January
13
Lighting the fuse 