NOTED WELL & EXTINCT FORMS
by
Richard Joseph Stephan
Craft beer in here, you can drink that give me an Old Style or Schlitz please, nobody’s Bud
Coming from nowhere except everywhere you are NOT, I am not with you and I never was
Tippin’ back six packs on my Dodge Super Bee hood, hittin’ the bushes with the crickets too
All gone like it was never here at all, yesterdays are finished before they started, like a dud!
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It doesn’t do it’s job if it doesn’t fall down like the ring around the roses, we all fallin’ down
Big fat clowns come and go, some funny, some sad and some mean, make ya wanna frown
Just because you thought everyone was so wonderful like you, it’s a shock to find deception
Things come and go with or without a reason, random intentions of the cosmic syncopation.
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Crisp and sour to the ends of wasted sweetness in the sugar cane fields, wiser men than fools
The food of the chemists, C6H12O6, molecular Hexose of six carbon atoms from deep pools
Men dreaming, women scheming all the ones that make it out alive, mutate into an android
It’s not a thing in itself but the form of the thing I speak of, lovingly as if it’s alive in the Void.
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Mink stoles just dead varmints of fur around the skinny white, black, brown ghosts of blue
Their garments of thread and animal skin keep their naked ape skin smooth and froze cold
To keep the blood flow in a constant state of animation from heart to the foot, it can’t fail me
Percussion and brass to make the guitars sound like they don’t need the drums, twang it too.
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Miracle is a defiance of the regular cause and effect of the natural world of perception prints
To compare the past the present or the future is merely a fool’s errand for the minions’ skins
They don’t care that they’re gonna die until they get to the death knoll to go to the fringe out
Far away from an elliptical orbit of Earth around the star called Sun, Sonny’s constant shout.
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The extinct moan as if they never left, echoes of the wild-eyed & bushy-tailed, I don’t wanna
Be dead and buried or burned once my mouth plays the agape surprise on the jaw and lips
In or out, one way or another, you will get to the Free Way, it’s behind the Twilight Zone tip
Dimes loaned, pitched quarters on lines of the sidewalks, to win all the loose change manna.
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If I go out on the limbs above, I will get higher than the ground of being, it’s all academics
From pre-school for little Jane and on to the PhD for big Dick, not that big on Dick’s kicks
A swamp marched me up the gallows because I smuggled the Mexican happy smoke for fun
WE made it really easy to travel on the backroads of my mothers’ and fathers’ gods, I’m One.
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Show your right and don’t be left behind up #ShitzCreek without a paddle, no way out of this
Stuck in the rabbit when it died, hormones of pregnancy do that to us all, pray because I love
You and the rest of the genome, whether good, bad or fugly, same piece of bliss on a baseball
Comes from inside and moves to the perimeter, all for one, all is one, rockin One’s for us all!
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r j j stephan, i
c. HALLOWEEN NIGHT, 10/31/2020 A.D. @ 23:59 hours (last day of FB NOTES!)
{ Jammed while present jammin’ to Little Feat #OldFolksBoogie #overTheHill link @ https://youtu.be/XmC_OhP7V2w }
FINIS
W.W.A.R.D.?