TREE OF MY FAVORITE EARTHLINGS
Richard Joseph Stephan · Saturday, February 1, 2020
We all only got what we give, what we gave may not have been enough if we’ve got it, nothing
I’m right behind y’all on the way to the end of the road where nobody gets off on a finish line
Taxes every year on the labor of you and yours, paying for only the Power of One knows, jinx
Pretenders following the leaders into the Black Hole where angels fear to go, age of a sphinx.
Dreams in a form of music that plays sounds of notes of scales without being seen, air waves
Interpreting the given into the style of the way of your beasts of burden and your saddle bags
Carrying things and memories you can’t forget from the cradles to the graves, deep in a sink
It may be true or false but nobody can come back to tell us one way or another, truth is Pink.
It’s a musical philosophy, words and rhymes and beats and riffs and runs up and down scales
In the middle of it or on either end, the infinite line has no being in angular, triangle squares
In the cubed heads above the necks of 200 bones, less the cranium, headless horsemen know
Where and when this thing itself is presented in egg, matter of DNA stardust-form, it’s a go.
You get what you got because it’s a return on what you gave into the genome, evened Stevens
It’s all there is between the essence of the matrix and your own id and superego, I am the sins
All of it, every single atom and charm in the struggle on Us, in the Void for a karma kid’s ear
No way to know and one way to find out, hit home runs is what we do, one, done, outta here.
Below a bronze statue of an immortal bunny rabbit, still got the music in you, teens grow up
Just a minute ago we were hidin’ from papa and mama, now we’re goin’ solo or duo stuck-up
Kicked my arse in for no reason other than to shame the unknown, the last One to even hurl
Neither you nor me, myself or I, not your betrothed spouse or your steady friend, a #boygirl.
by
r j j stephan, i
c. February 1st, 2020 A.D. @ 1:11 AM PST
{ Drafted in moments while listenin’ to some #DreamersDisease #YouGetWhatYouGive by THE NEW RADICAL 激進份子zzzz on youTube link @ https://t.co/bI1GRLZjm0?amp=1 }
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