Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

the more I hear about this world
the less I want to be part of it -
anti-vaxxers...
anti-maskers...
Tik-Tokkers unable to believe
that 29 divides 87
(what would they do if told
  it also divides 58 & 116?)...
Grimm fairy tales of cabalistic cannibals
and orbiting Jewish space lasers...
the new GOP in general:
not content with gerrymandering,
the party of Lincoln is shutting down those polls
that cater to the dark of skin...
might be that intelligence is
an evolutionary dead-end...
else dolphins would have developed
the atomic bomb...
apparently it's the dumb-dumbs' turn now -
and they've got all the guns....

Must be nice to be a dumb-dumb
untroubled by reality
natural selection favors the murderous

Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous. - Barbara Ehrenreich

I've spent my life trying
to make sense of the world
what a waste of time

make's sense to me
a mind wastes time
it is over before i know it
even so it is fun to play
my wasted life in time
still trying to make sense of it

corona jammin', she said
and of course I knew what that meant
only us pandemic type get the inference
and maybe it's just the regular ole jam
but it kinds of seems like this big head lookin' over my shoulder
and so I imagine it affects my jams
I mean I can't jam in a vacuum and I do
occasionally watch the news
....though would rather
Hike....watch a movie.....post some silly ass jam
on S8

silly ass jam
corona style
all nightmares collide

whats your number
might as well be the same
its gonna be called
be you good or whatever
time ticks
sometimes hard
depending on your game
do you sleep well?
not always dependent
but i hope you have chosen well
we gotta live together

sunshine came softly
through my eyelids today
the paper man tossed Baltimore's version
of The Sun from his truck
onto the porch
he's like a Swiss watch only has a better arm
he can place that thing right on the welcome mat
never misses
I give him a nice tip at Christmas
to show I appreciate his aim

vaccination two
life begins again
fearless behind mask

yep fully vaccinated
for a month and a half
I even go to the store now
a chore I actually missed
a year is a long time to give up
the routines that make us who we are
but we are turning the corner
and seeing our friends
and even hugging
Oh My

a hug
dangerously exciting
contact high

the embrace of a child
the old vibes from a grandchild
tuning forks of love now

old man
bout to die
what is it
but everything
there is no certain point
no place to say
its the everything
its all in together now

lives lost
corona or not corona
tears fill emptiness

gathering last evening
jazz potluck friendships
it has been a whole year