Isolation of a Chameleon

The Road to Somewhere
Artist Julie Dant

Isolation of a Chameleon

they call me Dexter,
sometimes I go by Dex;
I don’t much like that,
what’s in a name?

my name changes,
everytime I go down a gravel road,
or run into an auburn haired beauty
with smooth, milky-white skin
sprinkled in superb freckles,
that smirk and giggle back at me –
that’s when I go by Fitzgerald

in my impressiveness,
I hit the stop sign with my right hand;
then, tap it with my left,
a beat, bum, tap, drum
up against the vibrating post
absorbing the smells from the North
and the South –
bidding my fair lady a good-bye

nice to know you
I’ve got other things to do
you can call me Fitz,
as my trail of smoldering smoke,
seeps into her psyche –
it’s too late she already,
loves me
clinging to my toe hairs;
as if I was some sort of catch

I fling East and West,
the Sunrise on the back of my neck –
prickles of goosebumps,
try to hold me back –
too late! I’m out of there,
tripping into a distant street,
called Outer Richmond

it’s a good thing,
because I do not want ‘nothing,
not a thing –
to do with somethin’ called inner
I skirt into a back alley,
telling the old cats to call me Frank
a slight head bow all cordial like
I haven’t the time to listen,
or talk about their jazz –
I’m a busy man, you know

most people call me by my second name anyhow,
Holden, don’t take kindly to that name much –
“Say, Hold what cha’ holden’ onto?”
HA! Yeah, that’s a real gas,
guzzling up the laughs,
I’ll stick with Mac some days,
truth be told(?)
I can’t rightfully recall,
my real name these days –
more or less I stick
with back alley’s
traveling into gravel roads –
stickin’ in the middle;
that fork in the road

leavin’ my name in limbo,
along with my soul,
it’s traveling with the shadow thoughts,
of the auburn haired girl,
the one who believed,
my toe hairs were made of gold,
that Fitz was some sort of catch –
I never knew him

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Participating in OpenLinkNight hosted by Joseph Hesch. This is inspired mostly by road signs I have seen this week and some book characters I love – I find names intriguing. Sorry, folks it has been a rough day. I will have to make my rounds tomorrow … looking forward to reading what you have shared!

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