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Global Playground, Ballad for Ingrid

by  The Walrus

Posted: Wednesday, September 10, 2003
Word Count: 120
Summary: What a gal.




Impish urchin in bombed Beirut.
Streetwise kid kickin’ in Karachi.
Teenage tomboy in Turkey.
Landing in London
A blonde siren,
A cool urban chick.
A city chapter of long love,
His saddening insanity,
The desperate threats
Precipitating escape
And re-emergence
As a Spanish senorina
Platinum beach babe
Celluloid mermaid
Absorbing the ambience of Almeria
Swigging the salacious sangria
Swinging her bronzed booty
Dismissing the oxymoronic talent
Always the horizon’s beckoning finger
The tempting sound
Of a new playground
Winging her way to LA
To sell her screenplay
An unpacked suitcase stay
Before diving down under
Thereafter. Whatever, wherever.

This cow girl shoots from the hip
Her pearly lips blowing
The smokey whispers from the tip
Of her diamond studded pistol.