ON THE CORNER, ON THE BLOCK
Richard Joseph Stephan · Monday, October 28, 2019
------------wish a MFer would come git it-------------
Loose from the schools of parents and preachers who got here a New York minute ago
Ruby shoes or combat boots all cover up the feet that carry the mother loads of star glow
How old you’ve got to be to learn the facts of life from the gypsy queens in the fairy tales
When the tail in the air waggin’ to and from like there’s no tomorrow, wind in our sales.
Jumped when my pops said jump, moved in a microsecond when the rank ordered the file
Train rolls on from the first track laid to the last track finale of lucid reality, panties in a pile
Down home, back in the hollar where the shine’s produced and quality checked by my posse
All the children I hung out in the ‘hood with, through high school got scared of war, we see?
I flew away to do what the Air Force does to someone who things that they’re out their minds
Cut your hair clean off your skull, forced you to be obedient or receive punishment, amends
Until the training is ingrained into the bones and brain, the personality goes dormant within
Actually being embedded into the new way of being, a mortal that responds to Orders, Ends.
Population of humans and rats, not to mention the rest of the DNA to fly, run and crawl out
Of the muck and mire that has the stench of fifty million years, no place in space no doubt
Out of Time that you never had in the first or last place, nowhere in between is where I am
It’s where I’ll always be where nobody can ever find me, walk right through me, now sram!
If you only had to fly, phuq, eat, drink and lay in a nest until you had to do it again, you’d be...
You’d be an eagle, a man can’t fly but all of the other activities I’ve mastered, therefore I am
An eagle, watching the animals that look like food, a quick snack for the babies and buzzards
Last call for alcohol, soul shine drinks from here on, smoked BBQ bones and bud of orchards.
by
r j j stephan, i
c. MONDAY ROCKTOBER 28TH, 2019 A.D. @ 12:00 HIGH NOON
{ drafted while listenin’ to Allman Brothers Band #Soulshine & HITS on youTube link @ https://youtu.be/pDIQ7Otf1mw }
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