SPUNKY, DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE
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It was difficult to be a dead end kid, the downside is you had to feel the pain, upside’s the sun
Still shining in Darkness because it’s easy for a burning, hot star to do what it is that stars do
Inside or outside of the atoms, molecules and charm, it’s all One and the same, One for All
One, two, three as it goes on to ad infinitum, back to the Space where I used to play baseball.
I threw the ball, I caught the ball, I hit the ball, I kicked the ball, I shot the balls in holy holes
I didn’t want to but the facts are, I came here to be the best and I am, The Best, the very best
If I was any better I’d have to acquire amnesia to forget about it, y’all I’d be your rubber souls
Take you to the cleaners before you know it, workin’ it and usin’ cash for the loving, I digress.
Awake after bein’ asleep forever or a longer time than I planned, years, decades, eons of Time
But now I’m whistlin’ at all of the sights I’m seein’ walkin’ around the churches and state fair
Prayed I’d get down to rivers where silver, gold n’ diamonds hide ‘neath God’s 10 cent dime
Runnin’ from sleepin’, hungover from last night’s backwoods binge, chew tobacco in my hair.
Lower that fist down by your side and unclench your bung, release the blood and red mud
Survived the birth and death, the ways of the masters and the slaves followed to the graves
Chewed the tobacco and smoked it too, like I knew I should, makin’ smoke inside my pud
Backwoods or concrete jungle, Iowa or Alabama, your mama lived and she died, we slaves.
Wanting it to be a different way than history has displayed to the boys ‘round here, forget it
Former and latter makes me the One in the middle, using the Will to the power, God’s Zeus
Amazing grace and sin that came from either an erupted gas ball or a mental conflagration
Occult ad infinitum, holy jeans and muddy boots of red dirt roads and all, ‘too legit to quit.’
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r j j stephan, i
c. July 28, 2018 @ 11:11 AM PST
{ drafted while watchin’@TheDailySign #TheDailySign Music As Language in The ASL Club at Sac State listenin’ to some Blake Shelton #BoysRoundHere on youTube link @ https://youtu.be/_Sc4mxQE8Y8 }
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