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New Year's Wish (1/1/18)
Here's wishing no further irrelevance
for me or elephants
Poached for tusks
coaxed and left for husks
May old acquaintance be forgot
the bastards
And everything be new again
As if no time flew again
Here's wishing that bells unring
and time and tide wait for me
Here's wishing that soliloquy replaces
so ill is we
Here's wishing that children rhyme
No empathy is crime
Skies are not lined
Forests are not rind
of developer feast
And that the human beast
is humbled, checked, restrained
Before all is remained
Here's wishing that bees buzz freely
And everything is more you-and-mely
And madness and libido are sentenced to
a hundred thousand eons of no ego
Of course
All the answers to human ill are easily had
It's no condundrum dum-dum
They're in movie and fable and book and rhyme
A little curse, a little charm, a little potion,
a little recite
will requite
salvation's urge
erase species purge
Magic!
The only viable solution:
Sorcerer witch and potion, mystic
This ain't no crazy double-crostic
Politics are for Pollyannas
Wars are for bores
Negotiation for bloviation.
To wave away all the wrangle
poof away all the mangle
Voila alakazambra kadabra
is the only untangle
There is only profit in prophets
No succor just suckers
No reset no default it's all brain fault
So pray for prestidigitate fate
Maybe a 100-foot-tall intergalactic ape
Can set straight the human jackanape
("Watch me pull this rabble outta my hat!")
Just click your heels together three times
And you'll be outta this dump
and black to blackandwhiteville
Boy did they get that backasswards the only
place I want to go is off to see the goddamn Wizard
down the yellow brick road flying monkeys
or not
Here's wishing.
---RR
All blights deserved, copyright 2018 may not be reprojuiced without ripe
persimmons of the awful.
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20 TRACKS. 2 CDs. 12 GUEST ARTISTS. The Persuasions, Brooklyn-grown
street singers who became the most important
and powerful a cappella group in American
history, interpret the songs of Robert
Hunter and Jerry Garcia of the Grateful
Dead. Songs that still are among the most
original and
engaging in American music.
Sheer poetry, meet sheer melody.
"enchanting!"
---grateful dead lyricist
robert hunter.
produced by Rip Rense
mixed by Marc Doten
cover illustration by Luis Genaro Garcia
SPECIAL GUESTS ARTISTS:
Country Joe McDonald, Mark Karan (Ratdog),
Jackie LaBranch and Gloria Jones (Jerry
Garcia Band), Grateful Dead keyboardist
Vince Welnick, Dongming Qiao, James King,
Alyn Kelley, Eric Thompson, Peter Rowan,
Pete Grant, Mary Schmary.
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stories that happen to have been set to
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---Jonathan Minkoff, Recorded A Cappella
Review Board.
"Album producer Rip Rense calls the marriage
of
these two acclaimed artists
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---The
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here.
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