IT'S A MATTER OF SPACE & THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT A SQUALL
Dreams of Susie Q and Carolina to ya, blind faith in crystal balls from a priori mouths, cute rookie Someone exactly like you sit where nobody will see you or call on you for our love's sing-alongs Giving and taking from the inner secrets that were covered in velvet and silk, high sprung springs Dublin to Miami, Rome to Sacramento & Fairbanks to Laredo, it's everywhere that it can boogie.
Most if not every single one of the human beings on Earth are gonna die in a hundred year of kin No way out of this, we're here & now without a choice except for a suicidal, sweet coward escape Playin' the boogie woogie, the jazz, blues & rockin' rhythm of the holy ghosts still blowin' a vape Ships sail away sometimes and other times they sail in to my port, dock and resupply the cosign.
Gone in a second I fly & in a minute I'm underground with #FakeNews in a box callin' me to be sin Choked up on tulips and roses for the last time, people got me in trouble but on the way, I died To that higher ground I headed out to 8 times before I almost died, accident or TNT electrocution What did I sing that night you said you fell in love with me, you tripped on me, you know I lied.
I said what I said and I couldn't say anymore, I played the songs, picked and grinned until dawn When the dust settled and the sun rose in the East, I could see it all clearly, this was all of it, son Nothing after this matters after your body dies, after your mind and spirit return to rolled stone Tree line magnetic, graveyard dust is all there is left over, a hatchet buried in my 208th skullbone.
Played every note without a mistake, exactly the melody meant to be, never offbeat, all on time Staged in a circle, like a jerk, to be seen and never heard due to being all alone without an equal It's a hard job to see all of the trouble and sadness everywhere in sight, it's just a to-do list rhyme Words at the end sound similar except they ain't, makes you try not to think, cryin' in a squall!
by r j j stephan, i c. Mardi, March 23rd, 2021 Anno Domini @ 1:11 AMPST { Drafted this #hippo-masterpiece while listenin' to a @VanMorrison #LiveInMontreaux concert from 2016 link @ https://youtu.be/Q9rYW1UWkKs } FINIS W.W.A.R.D.?
THERE, CHAMPIONSHIP RASTA!* Here and now, we fly above the fray and when it's time to score, we go through the future, to me Spitballs of It, a whole frozen block of ice full of Unmoved Movers, Time's Space, a relentless sea It's the nature of the beast and the essence of the miracle that is, a rock of seeds in a cosmic stew Boiled and left in liquid states of complex molecules full of the rhythm and blues of me and you.
Punks who had babies without knowing the Way to behave in a nest's eggs or hive's honeycomb Your mama wouldn't let you know and your daddy didn't get the message, Love's a thunderdome People change from an atom collision all in our minds of empty plaids and stripes, no stars here Only One son, it's not me & it certainly can't be you, on the other hand, I'll give you a bum steer.
I knew this chick named Proud Mary back in 1966-1967 but her daddy was a cop & so he pulled It Left his pistol on the table, probably unloaded to see if I was a maniac or not, final words he said Told me she wasn't home for me anymore, couldn't make out with his 15 year old baby girl, then Or ever down the road, never come back or else, I think he'd finish me off, rough guy, he is DEAD!
Kept O'Tooles out of my genome, rolled on down the Desplaines River, left a good job in 2nd city Memphis to New Orleans, Riverboat Queen rolled me up and down the Mississippi, Air Force high Couldn't get in and out of the chow halls more than three times every day, love bon appetit force To you and me and everyone on the planet before and after I got here, you & I are intercoursed!
It was that UFO nobody but you saw on the Missouri River goin' through Great Falls skies in '73 In a second, smacked in the face with the unknown to be identified and forgotten simultaneously Secret on the top of the food chain is a secret, it's why you and I don't know it, kept it very quiet On hot days and cold nights, whispered words melt everyone, on the radio, on the iPhone, it's It.
In the groove and behind the scenes, left and right are lifted up by the leaders of the fagot packs Punks in the groove and their elders in the rehab homes, layin' in the sack with a diaper-pamper Nobody change It, who in this planet's rotational revolution wants to change moms & pops blacks Tan, greys, clearly how you'd like your century old scat changed, embarrassment of a soul jackass.
What does that all mean, barking and threatening to bite because it's all your carnivorous loving Wanting to be happy like all men and women who have descended from the rupture in the fabric Drinks were never on the house, the dogs downed watered-down Black Jack to my golden earing I played the concerts past midnight hours, tore 'em down to the stage's grounded dirt, I'm singin'.
I don't count on my fingers and toes, I do the math in my head, in my mind, in retrospect, I'm out No reason behind the humanity other than being the lucky draw in Space and Time, evolution lot At the end of the thing, this thing under your face, this body of 208 bones, Louisiana to California All millions of the minions first moved and then they don't, girls, boys, great grand folks of a Ga.
Gators or just viral infection of the DNA's RNA, gotta get eaten by gators and then nothing is left Eaten spirits and words in their mouths, a name on a granite stone and a random year of trippin' In and out of the burger joints, grocery stores, rental units, mansion estates & caves' hog chitlins Counting backward from One, you get to zero easier than slippin' on a slippery slope treble clef.
by r j j stephan, i c. Lundi, March 22nd, 2021 Anno Domini *HBD 'TRICESULLY POKE-SALAD, SMOKE IT! SIX-EIGHT RADIOACTIVE URANIUM235