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Chicagoetry: Led Zeppelin At The Stadium, Easter Sunday, 1977

By J.J. Tindall

LED ZEPPELIN AT THE STADIUM, EASTER SUNDAY, 1977
Minick got grounded
For
Drinking. He sold me
His ticket
For twenty-dollars
In cash,
Walked up to me
In the hallway
At Our Lord
Of the Flies
All Boys Career
Academy
In
Naperville.


SOLD
AMERICAN!
We took
The Burlington-
Northern,
Then the Madison
Bus. “Everybody
Do
The
Madison!”
Same bus
On which
I was slipped
A packet
Of Angel
Dust (which
I ditched
Under the seat),
For giving this
Dude directions
For the Queen
Show. Anyhoo:
Our seats
Were below
The organ.
We had
Binochulars!
The air smelled
Of
Cherry.
Three-plus hours of brutal,
Unrepentant
Rock and
Roll.
Jimmy came out
In black Stormtrooper gear,
Breeches and
Jackboots, pilot’s
Cap. Then:
The White
Zoso
Suit.
Half-hour acoustic
Set
In the
Middle,
Smoke-bombs,
Green laster
Pyramids.
The air
Smelled the air
Smelled
Of
Cherry.

J. J. Tindall is the Beachwood’s poet-in-residence. He can reached at jjtindall@yahoo.com. Chicagoetry is an exclusive Beachwood collection-in-progress.

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Posted on August 7, 2007