Alfabetgaden, Hørbylunde

Jeg satte Prince's Lovesexy på som taffelmusik i går aftes og kom i tanke om dengang jeg købte pladen som en gave til Per Højholt på hans 60 års-dag, i 1988 (!), og så alligevel ikke turde overrække ham den (jeg kunne ikke få øje på andre gaver) ved receptionen hos Forfatterforeningen i Strandgade, hvor jeg også glemte at sige tillykke, da jeg hilste på fødselaren, der så i stedet sagde tillykke til mig - med ham! Hvilket også gav langt mere mening.

Men jeg ærgrer mig over, at jeg ikke gennemførte transaktionen: Prince er lige så stor Jimi Hendrix-fan, som Højholt var, og Poeten H's poesi er forpulet lovesexy, som defineret her af Prince og hans rapper Cat i den poetologiske hymne "Alphabet Street":

No!
I'm going down 2 Alphabet Street
I'm gonna crown the first girl that I meet
I'm gonna talk so sexy
She'll want me from my head 2 my feet
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yes she will
Yeah, yeah, yeah (Yeah)
Yeah, yeah, yeah
I'm gonna drive my daddy's Thunderbird (My daddy's thunderbird)
A white rad ride, '66 ('67) so glam it's absurd
I'm gonna put her in the back seat
And drive her 2 ... Tennessee
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Tennessee
Yeah, yeah, yeah, drive her
Excuse me, baby
I don't mean 2 be rude
But I guess tonight I'm just not, I'm just not in the mood
So if U don't mind (Yeah, yeah, yeah)
I would like to...watch
Yeah, yeah, yeah...can I?
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah (Can I, can I, can I, can I)
We're going down, down, down, if that's the only way
2 make this cruel, cruel world hear what we've got to say
Put the right letters together and make a better day
Yeah, yeah, yeah, better days
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's O-O-K
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Maybe it's the only way
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Cat, we need U 2 rap
Cat, we need U 2 rap
Don't give 2 us slow
Cause we know U know
New Power Soul
Gotta gotta gotta go!
Talk 2 me lover/ Come on tell me what U taste/ Didn't your mama tell U/ Life is 2 good 2 waste? (Put your love down)/ Didn't she tell U/ That Lovesexy was the glam of them all?/ If U can hang, U can trip on it/ U surely won't fall (Put your love down)/ No side effects and/ The feeling last 4-ever/ Straight up - it tastes good/ It makes U feel clever (Put your love down)/ U kiss your enemies/ Like U know U should/ Then U jerk your body/ Like a horny pony would/ (Put your love down)/ U jerk your body like a horny pony would/ Now run and tell your mama about that!/ And while U're at it tell your papa about this
Yeah-yeah
Put your love down there when u wanna get shot
No! (Yeah, yeah)
Put your love down there when u wanna get shot
Put your love down there when u wanna get shot
Put your love down there when u wanna get shot
Put your love down there...
Get home, Alphabet Street
No!
L-L-L-L-Lovesexy
Yea, Oh, Alphabet Street
Yea, Oh, Alphabet Street
A B C D E F H I love U