ALL THINGS
ROLL DOWNHILL, SYSYPHUS IS ROLLIN’ UPHILL
Gods who passed stones through the creations kidneys didn’t remain the same game
Nobody hunted the gods any longer, the caves got buried in earthquakes, paper burnt
Memories that survivors could remember was passed on by word-of-mouth, no choice
Free or indentured by the boss of the first to come & first to be served as a master voice.
Time was never on a watch, a clock, an hourglass or a sundial of shadow pointing, an illusion
Days spin to nights due to planetary revolution & orbital ellipse 180 + miles around God’s Sun
Assuming atheists know any more than the cloak & dagger blind faith believers, priest to pope
Momentary duration from thought to illusion, after you’re born or before you’re woke doped.
Lapsed the memory of the candle burning, thought was thinking on the fly in the stark dark
Not my free choice, I am a victim of circumstance just like the rest of the all too human larks
Ready to fly away with wings once the final crack at heart beating ceases to be, you and me
Parades and processions for the end of the sniffing & snorting the gas in and out, not to be.
Fine at the same time that it ain’t alright, I’m missin’ the squares themselves, power of family
Eyes’ pupils dotted with the light of the golden dawn, answering perennial questions for free
No need for a dissertation to be written down or orally spoken on a colloquium philosophia T
Means to the Ends follow a straight line, Life as we know it until we don’t, rigor mortis to be.
Between the lines which were originally a figment of the imagination with nothing better to do
Teachers locked in exams & pop quizzes before the semester began, A students ruled the roost
Bloody or just leaking sewer liquid, foul water and rancid refuse from who knows what ol’ fool
Laid it all down, it flowed downhill to the bottom-feeders who never sleep, infinity payin’ dues.
Win what I won with dubious integrity, didn’t catch me countin’ cards in Vegas or Reno, my gold
You know the drill, play the game & cheat ourselves before the repentance and reward, I’m old
You know the same ol’ song, plays a million times a day, a million people die every day, all souls
Neverland wasn’t an option before overdue death, it comes post-mortem, brain-dead arseholes.
Shine my shoes or not, they might be sneakers or combat boots, hush puppies soft, I’ll step it up
Songs written for the feeling I get when the lights fall into spectrum, rainbow wavelength droop
Infrared cocktails and shots of ultraviolet rays that only a God could love, out of this world wine
Grapes squeezed the knowledge into wisdom only to be forgotten in a black hole, mama so fine!
Really, the Truth is at the top of the mountain which can only be climbed by Sisyphus’ two feet
No comfortable hiking boots in the day, in fact, barefoot & calloused to avoid the meet & greet
Hate and Love alternate the positive and negative state of being alive, charge of atom, it fired up
Blown to smithereens, banged a sky’s great, wide open, UFO would be shocked, y’all phuq’d up.
There’s a moment in every minute when you can either score or lose it all in a crash and burn it
Playing games and working the crowd for tips & stipend by hour, month or year, full of the #Chit
Then y’all retire and the sun goes down, losing teeth one at a time, soul is clear of an original sin
I am in and out just like always, it’s gonna all implode eventually, not my creation, right cousin?
I’m fine not being able to high five or slip anyone some skin, shake hands, slap Dap but it’s OK
Skynyrd and ZZTop hittin’ the Kenwood amp & Bose 901 speakers, turned up Hillbilly Deluxe so
I could hear every thought, every word of the cowboys, playin’ the burnt rubber & doin’ a blow
Nice to be alive, as long as you ain’t too high or drunk, long gone, fine, I’m in for the long play.
Dream is over once you’re woke, awake or awakened is the ultimate best, it’s like fishin’ Trout
They come & go, before & after dark, dusk or dawn makes no difference with right bait no doubt
It goes up & down, my friend caught all the fish, he put oil magic on his bait, I didn’t, I got Jack
Meaning nothing but cheating is everything to the cheaters, the cheated are just way outback.
Privates are publics and vice versa, up and down, in and out, all around the circle forever days
Never ending until eyes close & you see nothing at all except what the dead see forever phase
Drink the spirits, keep ‘em down the hatch or they’ll regurgitate en masse, just because y’all can
Hair of the dog, nevermore, a black raven seemed to squeak post 3 Margaritas, I was shot, man!
by
r j j stephan, i
c. Vendredi, August 1st MMXXV Anno Domini @ 1010 PMPST
{ Trippin’ with or without you, jammin’ this out of my craw while jammin’ to this excellent song, #SomthinAboutATruck by https://youtu.be/3YfNFR6gh2E?si=4q2TZuViK75VZu0p }
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