Percent
Pour hearts out
and shout percentages
with sources solid and sound
Hesitate before the pen
begin, again.
Into the night a fight
waits obligingly
to swing a right.
Cartoon man plays the music
did you hear
why we're here
colliding mysteries of communities
in time,
histories of wisdom bled from
friends near and far
learning at the bar
tender, helping understand
what is it to be?
One individual stands in constitution
but many confuse the better ways
as Harvard sunscreen rues the day
Rapids ahead, 'untoward' leaders
making hay, and hay and
hey, ain't that fallacious
smoothing the fascist way
ignoring the wars of today
mixing metaphors of cap and sol and com and the church into greed
needs?
Hijab or freedom from oppression?
"These boots are made for walking"
"Everybody's talking"
"Do you hear the people sing?"
Queens don't listen
children don't eat
drones fly
and the beat goes on.
Comments
Good evening good people, Viva!
Your Excellent Essay in Graphic Form, smiley
It's good to see you again.
A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma
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Hola old friend
Thanks for the poetry and music.
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I managed to get Sweetie out for:
Time is growing short.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
Hola dear Tim, think of you, two
often; reading the morning threads and the blues of late; been a testing summer of dizziness. Feel best the one time a week i have beers and a toke; otherwise, should I get in the way of the meteor?
Please stop in when you can!
words can't breach the short geo distance...
but your good reach touches many.
Sending love.
Just coming off opening for the Butch Trucks Band, this Monday
night past at BB Kings in NYC. Was a treat to not only meet him, but to be offered his drum kit to play on and have my 7 month old son there for soundcheck where he met him too. Cherry on top, he had a Friedrich Nietzsche shirt on with a quote, that led to an affirmation of the Kurt Vonnegut quote by both of us that all anyone ever needed for proof of the existence of god was music.
On a more political aside, when I first approached him to thank him for being so magnanimous to lend his kit to the opening band, he was deep in conversation to presumably family members, or more precisely a rant (which included a Bible passage), about having to maybe leave the country in a few months and move to France, and never to see his grandson again. His manager, sitting to his back and the side, gently called to me and explained it would be better to speak with him later. Unfortunately we only had the aforementioned brief encounter. But his 14 yr old granddaughter, who was sitting backstage with us while they were on, filled in the blanks. Spotting the Bernie pin on my knapsack (she had a wool hat covered in pins, though I didn't get anything from my glance other than she liked cats) she said she and her dad were Bernie supporters, but her grandfather Butch was a Hillary fan. Wow, I thought, pretty much the demographics for the country (and also how lame it was that he was supporting Hillary). Reminder folks, always wear your political pins - great conversation starters!
Thanks smiley, for all the art. Poetry and music keeps us all alive in these dark days. Thank you for yours.
"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"
- Kurt Vonnegut
You are welcome; share more...
especially of the city, if you will.
Thanks Smiley7
your presence here is so needed. The beat does not go on without people like you noticing just exactly what they are drumming up. Hope your doing good. Take care my friend.
So is yours, my friend; so pleased to see the
morning crew writing on, gives me heart a daily lift. This is a special place.
Brother, inspired by Spain!
Way behind on my personal correspondence, forgive me. I seem to have spurts of energy or maybe it's cabin fever released; love to you, sir. Play on.
Have you seen this version?
The wonderful Jarvis Cocker, directed by Todd Haynes
[video:https://youtu.be/N9P5nuKQjts]
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lovely...
thank you!
...
thank you so much, I haven't heard this voice since
fifty years...but it came back, all, as it would be yesterday... makes me shed a tear for all the emotions I once had when I was young. Bygone. Thank you, Smiley7.
Many good memories, mimi
a favorite of Brel's "Old Folks,"
Shedding tears and baggage, here; I hope, my friend. It's hard to be, at times, confusing to the best of humans. Great to be loved. Thank you for being here!
I bled! I blend from my head! Can it stop now?
Concussions made one lose typing ability! You free verse makes me happy.
Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.
Please take good care...
wow, we're coasts apart and you are here. May i share a favorite:
Hang in there, riverlover
Concussions are hell to deal with. Have had a couple of bad ones myself.
Take it easy. Hang out here with your friends as you can. Because we understand, and care about you.
Only connect. - E.M. Forster
TY, as long as it is obvious I cna't type yet...
Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.
Wonderful essay and music
I thought stride piano was a lost art -- great to see it on a street!
[video:https://youtu.be/Awn_B4QjDfw]
Daily Twain:
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Doc, did they take the train?...
Laughed so hard the aortic valve fluttered!
evening smiley...
so glad to see that you're still doing the boogie.
how are you feeling these days? i hope that everything's going swimmingly.
Oh fuck, in the deep end, Joe...
surgeons wish to mix me with a pig, in time.
Fantastic tune, thank you, Sir, for everything!
heh...
at the risk of making your aortic valve flutter again, check out this modern spiritual...
Whoosh!
ROFLMFAO...
I can't believe you dug that up...
I had forgotten all about that being played on the Lawrence Welk Show...
That one deserves another...
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEVVOaPMj08]
And a couple more for the helluvit...
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8NJ5fWCwAg]
I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House."
~John F. Kennedy~
Economic: -9.13, Social: -7.28,
Oh, all these good years
saying good evening; i've learned a lot, loved, been loved.
Remember when you said a few years ago, paraphrasing, "I built a family from friends."
Timely advise to me back then; so many of those simple "being there's"
Omigod Joe, can't stop laughing. How did you come upon this?
I mean, it really is a neat little country tune and lends itself quite nicely to the LW Show. But you have to wonder if they had any idea about the song's subject...or were they another in a line of subversive folks who occasionally dropped a hint?
Funny, as a school kid in the 70's I only knew about this show because my grandfather would watch it - and I hated it. To my child's eyes it was everything that was uncool, old fashioned and boring. But I understood it meant something to him, so I sat with him. Accordions, fiddles, big bands, sterility and wholesomeness - now I kind of dig it in a weird way, and find myself somewhat intrigued.
Ha. What other nuggets did Welk have that we don't know about?
Thanks again Smiley. Your fun wordplay and music references inspired this.
"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"
- Kurt Vonnegut
morning mark...
i think that one of my facebook friends posted it some time ago. the first time i saw it and heard it described as a "modern spiritual," i fell out laughing. i wondered how it got into their repertoire as well, i was wondering if there was some secret stoner in the welk family that snuck that brewer and shipley tune in as a religous tune.