a Jam is a Jam
Posted: August 18th, 2014, 5:14 pm
Wind is emotion, spun itself into oceans,
the desolate mother sea on gothic granite,
mountains dismantled one grain at a time.
Crystal plumes rage against gargoyle crags,
the animal truth of annihilation, the stars,
the asteroids, the cosmic blast.
You stare at the overpass and hope
twinkle won't toss a lit cigarette on your city.
Blessed are the poor in spirit, and it begins,
one note clipped, one full of flavor in some
broken back alley of musty industrial revolution,
and new constitutions shoot from fret boards.
Ye olde classics got genius in that cannon fire,
but we got the soul food shimmy shake quake,
the gospel, the word, it starts with nothing,
bad luck, bad moon, and the first note.
Everyone got a come to Jesus moment.
Not sure how rock fit space, or space fit rock.
Elvis hated the air-conditioned hum of Las Vegas,
so he grabbed a mic before the blues split town.
He was no Memphis Slim, but that record bumped.
Not sure how space enfolded rock.
It had a bounce to it, like some shrill beehive bop.
She drove a Plymouth Satellite faster than the speed of light.
We got meters bouncing on vacuum tubes, needle in a groove,
a teenage Venus dancing to bomb shelter bombshell blues,
and Bond, James Bond in turtleneck shoes, and she's gone,
out past Texas or Mars, or one of the seven stars.
The Fenders twang and surf between B-movie classics,
teen werewolf surf hippie cowboy drug films, order now,
drifting on the coast, a cloudy van, yellow brick road,
in God we trusted, oh no, linty pockets,
the President's fat budget is busted.
The road finds a more subdued knowledge,
a world of highways, junctions, rails and trails.
Prospects are better on the far side, Sri Runovayonda.
The guru is as restless as you, down from bench country
to share a plate of beans, you had many conversations.
And thunder envelops the desert, ride the ripple
like a train whistle out of Texas.
the desolate mother sea on gothic granite,
mountains dismantled one grain at a time.
Crystal plumes rage against gargoyle crags,
the animal truth of annihilation, the stars,
the asteroids, the cosmic blast.
You stare at the overpass and hope
twinkle won't toss a lit cigarette on your city.
Blessed are the poor in spirit, and it begins,
one note clipped, one full of flavor in some
broken back alley of musty industrial revolution,
and new constitutions shoot from fret boards.
Ye olde classics got genius in that cannon fire,
but we got the soul food shimmy shake quake,
the gospel, the word, it starts with nothing,
bad luck, bad moon, and the first note.
Everyone got a come to Jesus moment.
Not sure how rock fit space, or space fit rock.
Elvis hated the air-conditioned hum of Las Vegas,
so he grabbed a mic before the blues split town.
He was no Memphis Slim, but that record bumped.
Not sure how space enfolded rock.
It had a bounce to it, like some shrill beehive bop.
She drove a Plymouth Satellite faster than the speed of light.
We got meters bouncing on vacuum tubes, needle in a groove,
a teenage Venus dancing to bomb shelter bombshell blues,
and Bond, James Bond in turtleneck shoes, and she's gone,
out past Texas or Mars, or one of the seven stars.
The Fenders twang and surf between B-movie classics,
teen werewolf surf hippie cowboy drug films, order now,
drifting on the coast, a cloudy van, yellow brick road,
in God we trusted, oh no, linty pockets,
the President's fat budget is busted.
The road finds a more subdued knowledge,
a world of highways, junctions, rails and trails.
Prospects are better on the far side, Sri Runovayonda.
The guru is as restless as you, down from bench country
to share a plate of beans, you had many conversations.
And thunder envelops the desert, ride the ripple
like a train whistle out of Texas.