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8981 05/30/2010
HUMPHREY BOGART IN SAN FRANCISCO: THE BIG SLEEP (poem)
SAM HAMOD

Humphrey Bogart in San Francisco: The Big Sleep

There was always a fog
Or rain, or something else,
San Francisco, cloudy
Or dark, never any sun,
That caused Bogart
To grab his raincoat, but what
Got me
were all those beautiful babes,
though he was short, they’d
give him the eye, kind of
Turn to show
Their best
Side or
Check him out
With their rear
view
But Bogie always knew
When to pull
The string, when to
Let it
Loose, or when
To take a hard right
To the jaw rather
Than a 38 to the gut,
He caught Dorothy Malone
With her hair down, and
We can only guess how
Long the rain lasted
That afternoon
As he waited outside Geiger’s store,
I know the rye had to be
Drunk, she grabbed him
Before he left, a bit
Disheveled,
He knew how to hold
On to his cash, but also
His love
Of the horses and good scripts,
kept him
On a sharp edge,
so when he
Decided to
Hang it up,
He had enough to
Go sailing
Into the sunset off Malibu, and
Oh yes, he took
Mrs. Rutledge with him


C: sam hamod, may 30, 2010

Sam Hamod is a poet, you may find more about him on this site and on google.com. He has published 12 books of poems and has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.