RICHIE STEPHENS
@Carlos * Santana
Pain pill pacify
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It has been said that we’ve all been born to raise a little hell in brothels
On the nature of beasts, we’ve generated through random Bates motels
Ministers, pastors, preachers, priests, and bishoprics to holy ones dead
No evidence of anything other than that we’re all gonna die, principled.
High and mighty above the atmosphere, astronauts have eye-witnessed
Earth is nowhere near the moon, Venus nor Mars, planet Man’s alone
In a venue to discuss assumptions leading to conclusions, conundrums
Without the experience of barking up the wrong trees, I’ll chew a bone.
Follow my logic, presume nothing is necessary but sufficient to be flown
Rational use of words which reflect thought without any veracity known
With or without foot pain & headaches, all Life’s illusory dreamscapes
Proof in your pocket, a wealth of chump change & dollar bills y’all apes.
Yet the circus rolls on, ad infinitum, tickets stamped “paradox & wit”
Unfurling holy banners stitched with idle riddles, fortune’s counterfeit
We juggle our fables, break bread with myth, toast to insights unseen
As the iron curtain draws, one and all are actors in tomorrow’s dream.
Loose change coins clink, exchange prayers sink reason pirouette & spin
For the only proof is this spoof that lingers as a question tucked within
Why, who, where, when & how do you accept your mortality, get loose
If you don’t, oppressors will seize your circulatory system, sunken blues.
So hurt by the tornado, left with mortal wounds I’ll succumb to & die
No complaints, no blame for living on Earth when my Time came to fly
Everybody before & everybody who comes after me, pity holy passion
Unacceptable alternative to nihilism is the holy Truth, gold dusted sin.
Treasure in the mountain of rocks and dirt were leftover Big Bang bore
Archeological proof is the annihilation of all things buried under all dirt
Swoop in and out of your broom closets and check your six at the door
You have no partner covering you & your hooded noggin, mask & hair.
On a picnic when it began to storm, food’s dead-on-arrival down low
Sixty spokes in my bike’s 26” tires make certain my rims don’t blow slow
Happy ending upon your inquiry on a positive note, answered with ease
Stop. Silence. Wonder. Shock. Die or Fly away, you know we’ll freeze.
I can see clearly for miles the higher I get above the Earth, not too high
Just high enough for consciousness to touch the face of God and not die
I could but won’t tell you why this means nothing at all outside of Earth
There’s only one GD way to get out of this life alive and it ain’t a rebirth.
Consumed skin and bones in the burning man bonfire, ashes blow dust
Peering through the I ain’t looking glass, see nothing clearer than us
Where YOU were the day before you got conceived, nonplaced in Space
Egg, ovum, sudden impact with subatomic particulate leather and lace.
Justice back in 1978 was a ham sandwich around third period, last page
It may have been baloney or PB&J, olive loaf or too human liver sausage
Fronting on stage for a band that sucks & will dissolve before the fame
Being happy is what gods can control, health, rest, fearless, Man, I am.
Pleased to meet you here and now before it was too late, meant it bro
As it is above here and now, so it is below here and now, it’s no joke, so
To be or not to be, isn’t a flippant inquiry, so why stay alive for nothing?
No reason is likely, no-good reason other than continue diggin’ a thing.
Knowing that when you don’t awaken, sleeping or being knocked out
Then there will be no later, no tomorrow just like no yesterday is today
I’m numb, I’m dumb, it’s the shots of Jose Cuervo that turned the burn
I hope to be in flight at rigor mortis, below up above, flyin’ eagles learn.
Realize and promptly deduce a forgone conclusion, we’re all scorin’ chit
Any man or woman who left the Earth’s gravitational pull, seen no sin
No angels of matter appeared in spirit form, except hallucinations of Me
What I thought I was, who I was, mutated form of homo sapiens’ glee.
Schizophrenic from conception, I was a twin as such, Evil? It was Good
Hence, I survived but my twin sister didn’t get out of the neighborhood
She knew what I knew & our pact was to keep a third eye on each of us
Goddess reasons the wisdom out of the delight, heart throb ain’t a fuss.
by
r j j stephan, i
c. Lundi, August XVIIIth MMXXV Anno
Domini @ 333 PMPST
F I N I S
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TO BE ONE, ASK ONE.
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