Signs of Life in 2019

[neil]

did you know that you can be an artist and a citizen at the same time?
poetry is prose defying gravity. if you walk and defy gravity at the
same time, what are you doing that isn't called normal life? nothing.
happens all the time. the happiest people are those who don't know it.

[neil]

this is what here looks like.

drafty.

ima found Abandoned Building Potes,

versifying street preachers

walk around wif a lil

speaker 'n' a mic

irritate citizens

wif abstrak noodling

some'ody hazza doit

fiddle while Rome burns

not like it izzn gonna burn anyway

mayze well fiddle

[neil]

as there is not presently upon this earth a single person whom i would trust sufficiently to open my full mind to in plain conversation it seems a validated mess.


across the shoulders of my black leather jacket i may have sewn in inch and a half tall letters "i am going to murder you" as there, again, is no point in half measures.

[neil]

it occurs to me that Pynchon and Faulkner are not so much postmodernists as out and out American literary profligates. or profligates.

[neil]

it's my youngest son's birthday.
let's see - 1986 to 2019 = that would make him 33.
and he has a little girl, i think she's 3ish.
and they just had a little boy so he just got bornedish.
2 great grandbabies ... woohoo.
i guess if i drank, if have a something.
i'll go read a book.

[neil]

bip bip flip the switch bide the sitch snide lies slide
in one here and out the never mind the store when all
the shelves are bare bread is scarce and sarcasm makes
weak sandwiches time to feed the fam something wholesome
set it off

[neil]

[neil]

The Swirling Eddies (a Terry Scott Taylor project)

"Some Friendly Advice" from "Zoom Daddy" September 1994


Bake a cake, swim a lake
Do a jig, slop a pig
Say a prayer, cut your hair
Smell a rose, pick your nose
Take a trip, write a script
Take a course, eat a horse
Take a nap, draw a map
Do your duty, shake your booty

Something that you wouldn't ordinarily do
Something just a little bit different for you
Like forgiving a friend and an enemy too
You'll feel better, you'll feel better
When your little day is through

Smoke a cigar, drive a sports car
Read the good book, try a sky hook
Call your mother, kiss your father
Tell 'em you love 'em, clean your oven
Get up early, do a curly
Feed the hungry, spend some money
Feel the breeze, cut the cheese
Chicken walk, smile at a cop

Something that you wouldn't ordinarily do
Something just a little bit different for you
Like forgiving a friend and an enemy too
You'll feel better, you'll feel better
When your little day is through

See a show, dig a hole
Fly a kite, take a hike
Twiddle your thumbs, scratch your buns
Make a face, run in place
Play some pool, go back to school
Drink a beer, pierce your ear
Abstain from sex and cigarettes
Go out to eat, soak your feet
Make a mud pie, greet a fat guy
Floss your teeth, keep the peace

Something that you wouldn't ordinarily do
Something just a little bit different for you
Like forgiving a friend and an enemy too
You'll feel better

[Bridge]
Write yourself a note that says, "Be of good cheer"
(La la la la la la la la)
(La la la la la la la la)
Paint yourself a sign that says, "The beginning is near"
(La la la la la la la la)

Wash your dog, burn a log
Visit a widow, fluff your pillow
Paint a picture, clean your dentures
Learn to surf, go to church
Have a picnic, buy a quick-pick
Join a carpool, drink a yahoo
Play monopoly, eat some broccoli
Take a bath, scratch a rash
Knit a sweater, write a letter
Roll downhill, make a will
Flick your bic, call in sick
Keep a vow, milk a cow
Start a business, make a wish list
Beat a drum, suck your thumb
Go to confession, learn a lesson
Visit a zoo, pack a mule
Go to Sears, cry some tears
Give stuff away, act in a play
Plant a tree, work for free
Join a club, save your stub
Visit a jail, read your mail
TP a house, turn-on your spouse
Plant potatoes, pick tomatoes
Sleep in late, lose some weight
Make up a dance, take a chance
Walk around nude, play with your food
Get baptized, go skydive

[neil]

Viktor Vaughn (Daniel Dumile / MF Doom)
"Vaudeville Villain"
THE DROP

[Intro: Sample]
"Victor, a stranger to see you"

[Verse: Viktor Vaughn]
If I'm not working or putting work in
I'm either wheeling and dealing
Or probably jerkin my—
Yep—listening to nothing, taking no suggestions
Or destructive criticisms, that can't improve on perfection
Rock a crowd in sections on a good night, the hoes fight
Always get the dough first then everything else goes right
At least that's what they say and who the fuck is they?
Make a hick say "what the hey?" brought that chick from sick bay
Ensign, he shoulda asked his upperclassmen
Before he bust blast em, never trust no Cardassians
Captains log supplemental
The Klingons are now aboard the Enterprise rental vessal
On my cue photon torpedo
Oh and if I'm not on the block with Jorgito
And so on for the street though
Smoke a pound of leek though
I'm jokin on the fact that hiphop has gone freak show
Don't let the drama getcha
In the only genre of music where the fans shoot the messenger
Bitch niggas talk behind your back like a catcher
Either M-Y-O-B or B-Y-O stretcher
In that order, man, woman, son, daughter
The beat sound like they underwater, make it fun to slaughter
Even if you hear some whack shit you never give a chance
Some shit sound like all you could do off it is river-dance
It's not a hobby, don't be sloppy
Doing deals with these labels is likened to a botched robbery
Nobody supposed to get bodied, golly
This shit is like a folly bout to cold flip probably
It's not me he got a ill spills knot in Brooknam
Where even though kids kill they still chill and look calm
While working on new developments for the book bomb
In one bad experiment it blew and took a hooker arm (arm and leg)
BOW! look mom, no hand
Studied black magic for years out in no man's land
It's like a barbecue all swine cookout
To fuck up they plans like a blind man lookout
Cram to overstand it, peep it and absorb it
The same way he keep all the planets in they proper orbit
Norbit, y'all better off going corporate
Nobody wanna hear that bullshit it's too morbid
There's no prints, he hold the mic with a mic glove
And rolls dolo from state to state like Ike Love
Like on top of the world loser keep it gully
Rap creeps seem they got too much juice in they belly
It's why they brung V he still hungry
And spit something thick on the mic like a lungy
Mind ya daughter she on line for the water
To get lucky like when she find a quarter kinda sorta
Remember me God, clean timbs with emery board?
He only came to save the game like a memory card
Ooh shrewd, a lot of crews is too rude
And it's way too many let's not and say we do dudes
He said 24-7 I be on call
He use his vacation days to watch Babylon fall
Numbskulls.. get to stepping they dumb dull
And how he rep the mic is like the weapon from Krull
Cats be like what's wrong with your man black?
Biohazard suit and Van Grack for the anthrax
Jeez and can't get no peace
Form blazin sword for the police robeast
Cochise, write a rhyme like a book report
And sell it to a rookie you could tell by the hook he bought
You ain't know he sell hooks and choruses?
They couldn't bang the slang if they looked in thesauruses
It's like a friendly game of dodge ball
Oddball God y'all, who played the garage wall
With the Stan Smith's checkerboard lace
And the brand new INF they ain't check the boy waist
You saw his face? so who next to get they neck chopped
Or popped like a Beck's top, respect the drop
It's too much wreck hops
Who next to get they neck chopped
Or popped like a Beck's top, respect the drop
Woopdie-do flows do fifty like a hooptie do
Groupie crews try to figure out from what coop he flew
They out of place, beats sounds like outer space
With no time to waste he was Audi without a trace

[neil]

hundred 'leven somethin'
double forty nine
Chevy in the moon light
burnin' eighty-five

bust a solo black top
rip a little life
stolen from the big men
borrowed from the wise

windin' in a wander
growlin' with the wind
nothin' left to squander
everythin' to give

sixty-five came early
wonder what it means
blowin' smoke at worry
eatin' butter beans

hope you listen closely
pray you'll listen well
now's the time for moanin'

sound that lonely bell

prodigals are halfwits

fav'rite sons are blind

heroes live in ditches

all our hopes have died

[neil]

sliding in home to nab a nostrum then it's the highway, the by-ways, the in between lines ways, adios ....

[neil]

unhhh ...
refreshed my firefox browser and somehow lost all my passwords and bookmarks.
genius ...
back here, obviously.
had to build a new password.
it's embarrassing.
not having to make one.
the password is embarrassing.
nobody's fault but mine ...

[neil]

baDUM baDUM baDUM
thas ma pulse

[neil]

Octubuh dh fuss

mee me indh bottum
brang mh boose nh shoose
mee me indh payn nh rekuleshn
mee me theah we goan
mee me we goan
mee me
mee me theah oanhoan
indh payn