Tribute to Heath Ledger - a little James Dean, a little Bob Dylan, a little Michael Dransfield. A "zero joker" - but "I'm Not There"

One day

A webbed

Blonde

Mop

Framing

A scrunched

Grin

Sidled out of

The cooking place~

A little like a

Scrambled

Unknown

Soldier

With no

Clear past

And a future

Staggering

Forlornly

With a knapsack

Of backpacking

Questions

~

And there were many one days~

Some James Dean rebellions~

A shred of Byronic romance~

A slow cowboy of all things gaiety~

A sliver of Dylan's gravely flair~

Till finally emerging

Cautiously

As a zero joker~

A small watcher

Of Batman wings

On a dark knight

Of nights

~

But

Like

The star of

Michael Dransfield~

Young

Drugged

And

Dreaming odd dreams

Till Good Friday

Wiped him away~

Ground zero locked his moccasins

In muddy

Boggy

Footprints~

~

Old Perth is so far away~

His eternal heartland

~

And Matilda

Must waltz

Alone

~~~~~~~~~

In response to Heath Ledger found dead at NY apartment - National Nine News - 23.01.08 + In Stetson or Wig - he's hard to pin down - New York Times - 4.11.07

~~Also posted on HubPages with pics and some extracts from New York Times