LIKE NOBODY’S BUSINESS
I LEFT FOOLS IN CHARGE
You all are way out of order because you’ve got no sense of being aware of nonsense, I see
In flight from your home sweet home to another world, far away from where you used to be
Medals and patches of achievement for the boys and girls of gangland, all seven continents
All the language mothers have taught their brood, they learned, no ten commands of gents.
As a pinch won’t cause an inch, meter or a parsec to be anything but a measure of subzero
Killer, screwed, idiot of a corpse, lover of dead meat, no hero of mine, baby mama bambino
You and I, no matter who raised us to be here & now, we are certain that we’re all mortal Ids
Egos molded from living colors of the mothers & fathers who survived the horror of the kids.
In a manner of speaking, the day you die you’ll know the Truth, expect a surprise hit to sing
Mines with the gold and silver leftover from the Big Bang, as above, so below, human races
Buried deeply at random with access to the conduit of Earth’s center core, twilight places
Hair grows on skin, needs to be shaved & cut is to identify the Time & Space of the Rising.
Listen to false teeth chatter in your mouth, in back of your lips, slap the taste out yo’ mouth
Far away from where your understanding of reality lies, there’s the actual holy, whole truth
Nothing but the truth is important, tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but it’s nudity
Doubt it all, everything, evidence can be manufactured & misinterpreted, in the naked city.
Inherited your DNA, not your fault but you now must assume, the GD mortal sin never dies
Blinded faith you believe without evidence of Truth because it is not true you know anything
Leaps beyond the words which predicate abstract, invisible concepts are unanalyzed skies
Strange brew drunks, smokin’ wacky tobacky, sleepin’ ‘til noon, y’all, I got a concert to sing.
Aggravation is what I provided to my kin from an early age, in a playpen, in a highchair too
You can’t always get what you want but I found I could get what I needed almost at will, I do
About four years old and on through to school K-12 & onto college BA, veteran’s degree ado
About nothing much more than the facts of life, you are alive & you’re gonna die, a GD fool!
Ask an astronaut or cosmonaut before they die, what they found, what they know, post sky
They can’t tell the secret they all know, no words for the Nothing appropriate to cover the lie
God ain’t there, woman & man, here and now, lucky or not, all you know is all you’ve got too
Barroom brawl, glass shattering, whiskey & ale splashin’ & drenchin’ the cowboy cold brew.
Woke up with wood the next morning, no memory of the way I returned to my bunk hung up
Bangin’ headache until the aspirin I chewed without a drink kicked into my stomach lining
Hurt so bad, I gagged, nearly barfed before I got to the can, prayed to the porcelain god too
Not long since no food was inside of me, anywhere to be found, except in proper fighter foo.
Hints about what the meaning of this whole shebang is, they go right over my head, oh man
I probably won’t like the Truth when I make my acquaintance but you gotta do what you can
Peace after War for a New York minute but it won’t last longer than a generation’s thin skin
This is the way it is, tautology, the way it is, sing it, #WhatItIs? Tempt me, cop a Temptation.
by
r j j stephan, i
c. April 1st MMXXV Anno Domini @ 1111 PMPST
{ Drafted playin’ #WhatItIs by the @Temptations in an infinite loop on youTube link @ https://youtu.be/3VgoiUBU86o?si=fdVOglfBG5PIlbQT }
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