HOLD
ON TIGHTER THAN I
Imagine you’re in a four-corner room without benefits of ala’s ambient light
As if you’re a blind man in a trap, you act like your cornered with no way out
Ready to claw my way out of the impossible state of being, first thing I’ll fight
My self as the ego and id, both with a mythological trip to all twist it & shout.
This all comes in handy in retrospect, it’s much better than falling down in love
With or without you, it’s my fate of unintended consequence from a Man above
I walk, run, drive or fly between where I am & where I am going to be all in synch
Melted ice & cheese to concoct the milk of cow or goat-to-go, all too human #Ink
Asleep at the wheel when the car’s still in park, running on empty near a stop sign
Near a boulevard means we’re far away from an avenue I need to be, soon or I’ll
That’s a miracle in itself, the rest of the thing is a number before & after lunch drill
Up ahead, there’s a train a-comin’… so, get on board of the soul train soul shine.
Pimples on your skin which faces this world will affect your psyche until you die
Poor kids grew up into very upset malcontents who accept wild theory as factoid
Monkeys outside of any cage other than the 7 continents, borders to border void
Accept no theoretical, propositional logic as the fact that the Truth is a white lie.
From naked apes who inherited whatever the prehistoric DNA leftover to Man
Nothing sagacious about the premises, mere assumptions most probably 1 Zen
Murder or killing in self-defense of the Maggies & Dicks, homeless in the hovels
Each revolution of Earth’s RNA within a spinning star-Sun, 365 spin of my novels.
Tell her you love her to discover the nature of the adoring other ½ sensitive I
Ego and the Id team up for the conflict and become sawdust on a bar’s floor
Man and woman, jiggering for the commotion that comes raising duplicates
Y’all kinfolk of mine, Life’s short, Time-Space Warp’s all there is, checkmates!
Playing games between players of the mind, if the rules are unknown, I am out
Regulations followed, penalties for violations are all in my game, ain’t no doubt
Fairness is the way of the narrow road, not too far left or too far right of center
Middle of the road, no god nor evil spirit, just awareness, pure Zen Stratocaster.
Strummed the strings, fingered the frets, made melody & a recollection stop sign
All babies grown past the age of reason need to know, they have a need, not a sin
Original, mortal or minor infraction of regulation, all violations of obedience, all in
For reasons that rhymes aren’t everything, neither are prosaic bitches lookin’ fine.
My mother laid down a track on early vinyl prior to 1951, called the song, “Again”
Talkin’ about not takin’ anything for granted because it won’t happen again, easy
Don’t worry, it won’t make a bit of difference in the long run, all is above & below
Into the mud, dirty water mixture of stardust, dead moonshine, got goo, skid row.
Junk for the bums to shove into their hearts and souls via fingers, necks & toes
Happy for a long moment that passes like a ship in the night, leaving pain’s flows
Up & down the skulls & bones of sisters, brothers, sons & daughters with no balls
Buried, burnt, scattered among four corners of a spheroid Earth without 4 walls.
Shoot an arrow at the messenger who ain’t Cupid or Valentine’s Day greeting swill
It’s a Robin Hood killing in self-defense, it was a duel to the death, a God’s free will
Sensitive as the inside of the outer limits of matter, what we are in bitter endin’
This is your life, all of our Lives not taken for granted, it’s 3 wishes to a soft coffin.
What a life without a wife, my mother used to say, or was that my father? Anyway
Far away from this specific, particular moment in general means so far less today
There’s a place in Space for every atom, it’s right there where it is, stung by a wasp
Every single other thing is cosmic dust, before you breathed & after the final gasp.
Tones of the sound, shapes of the sights combine to ghost the form, spirit at night
If and only if you know what others merely believe to be true, then opine the right
Conclusions based on assumptions are suspect, Ends justify the meaning, it’s blue
Knowledge is impossible and knowledge is power, hence power is impossible too.
Accidental collision of stars’ galaxies causes big bangs and silent whimpers et al
Depending if it’s now or then, you’ll be able to witness the fiasco, a Hades’ hell
Fire like the one in the sun, only frying your atoms into smoke, fire one up now
Same as it was & the same as it will always be, take it for granted, lips will blow.
I have some noxious fumes to share, there’s no deodorant or water in my world
We’re dry except for the ice-cold beer & cheers of the spirits of every concoction
To mix or shoot straight with or without the moves that I never made, checkmate
Stillborn like my brother & sister triplet homies, our mother & father didn’t date.
We got conceived in the heat of a drunken heartache, never to have a birth date
Sharing this with the guilty ones, know that there’s nothing after life, it’s our fate
Dixie to the great Northwest, coast to coast & border to border I’m harmonized
Every time zone, measuring the rate of spin & wobble, ain’t no savior gonna rise.
Teasing ‘til asleep, unconscious as a rock for seconds passing like an absolute fake
Tenses passed future into present into past, stopping Nothing is nobody’s last call
Overhead and underhanded, the Truth be told & dismissed like leftover stale cake
Pancakes, eggs & bacon, OJ & Java keep the genome thriving, Winter on into Fall.
by
r j j stephan, i
c. Mardi, 4-8-2025 AD 1010 AMPST
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OH, &AC/DC #SOULSTRIPPER @https://youtu.be/Sn6bfNFUSU0?si=Cv-jX6WAu3h0xXY_
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SAVE ME SOUL, ROCK & ROLL
