Vernon Frazer

«Sex Queen of the Berlin Turnpike»

Lineup

o Vernon Frazer -
poetry, recitation, bass
(on # 3,7,9,12,16,19)
o Thomas Chapin - alto
saxophone, flute, bass
flute, balloonphone
o Mario Pavone - bass
o Joe Fonda - acoustic
& electric basses
o Brian Johnson -
drums, log drums,
tabla, bells, vibraharp

Titles

1. The Sex Queen of the

Berlin Turnpike
(Frazer) 5:17
2. A Conversion (of
Sorts) (Frazer) 2:40
3. Interlude I (free
improvisation) 1:21
4. Club Music (Frazer)
3:13
5. Inspiration (Frazer)
2:58
6. Under the Lamp at
Cobalt Beach (Frazer)
1:45
7. Interlude II (free
improvisation) 1:16
8. Ballad (Frazer) 2:09
9. Interlude III (free
improvisation) 0:42
10. An Old-Fashined
Break Dance (Frazer)
0:49
11. A hipster's hipster
 (Frazer) 4:28
12. Sales Pitch of an
Honest Real Estate
Agent (Frazer) 3:19
13. Interlude IV (free
improvisation) 0:47
14. A Slick Set of Wheels
(Frazer) 1:58
15. A Lunchtime Reunion
(Frazer) 2:22
16. Interlude V (free
improvisation) 1:10
17. Haight Street, 1985
(Frazer) 2:44
18. July 4, 1986 (Frazer)
3:26
19. Interlude VI (free
improvisation) 0:55

20. The End (Frazer) 0:12

Recorded August 5 & 6 and September 24, 1987 at Real Art Ways Studio, Hartford, CT,
USA
Released 1988 by Woodcrest Records [1001]

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The Sex Queen Of The Berlin Turnpike

"coulda been
Little Miss Rich Bitch layin' on my yacht"

but claimed her father left

his inheritance behind
when the Mob's hitmen climbed

his trail. So,

she's the doe-eyed darling of the clipjoints

on the Strip. She flashes

her tits for tips from bikers
& lonely old men

in glasses
steamed with dreams of what never was.
 Her nectarine nipples
tease me, her buns swing the breeze
that sucks up my buck

on her wake
of chestnut hair. She feeds my fantasies

the way I feed her lost

wealth — what I can afford to give.
But she still lives bitter,
broke, strung out
on coke in neon turnpike motels

& runs out on the rent.

While I listen to her story
to escape from my own

she pays back

the memories of her father.
—

Quoted from Vernon Frazer's article Extending the Age of Spontaneity to a New Era: Post-Beat
Poets in America
Source: http://www.bigbridge.org/issue10/fictvfrazer.htm