"Stalking Cougar"
work & copyright by R. Geoffrey Blackburn
http://www.rgeoffreyblackburn.com/index.html
Cloud Shadow 31
Is your life
arm
n' arm
with Freedom?
Have you
beat
to death
ye olde Demon ~
Who enslaves
so much
of
mankind ~
With a depthless appetite
for poisons
that wreck the temple
of body n' mind?
Well
well
my
friend ~
Why
don't
you
bend?
Be a Cottonwood Tree
so free
below 'dee
Deep Desert sky ~
And
let
Idiot World
pass you by...
Cloud Shadow 32
The backwash
of
my
past ~
How long
is
it
to last?
How long am I
gonna
hear
these ghosts ~
Who have nothin' good
to say
when they
make their toasts?
Cloud Shadow 33
Can you handle Love
with
a
capital L?
Can you handle human-
kind
when it's venomous
as Hell?
Well
well
my
friend ~
Why
don't
you
bend?
Be a Cottonwood
tree
in 'dee
Deep Desert wind ~
Yeeeeeeeap, and let
thee other, thee
Idiot
Wind ~
Blow
it-
self
out ~
Now what do ye s'pose
Love for all
of Life is all
about?
Cloud Shadow 34
Love Peace n' Freedom
I gotta say
makes a pretty
nice phrase ~
It
never
ceases
to amaze ~
Me with
it's
breezy butterfly
fluttering sound ~
When I hear it
I know
I'm afloat
above holy ground ~
"Love Peace and Freedom"
how can it be
wrong
for this bleary old soul?
Unless, of course, it
smacks
of terrible
"Sex Drugs and Rock n' Roll"...
Cloud Shadow 35
Let me tell you a
little story
that you no doubt
have heard before ~
About "Love Peace and
Freedom"
vs.
the Vietnam War ~
Thousands upon thousands
draft-dodged
that
Son of a Bitch ~
As
war
mongers
got rich ~
And
I'm
sorry
to say ~
As a lot of poor
folks and soldiers
got
blown away ~
At any rate, Mike, my
older
brother
went ~
But by the time
my turn come
I
sent ~
A letter askin'
'em
how the Dodgers
were doin' ~
As the war
kept
a
brewin' ~
By then it was
a
popular
sport ~
Go-
in'
to
jail n' court ~
Dod-
gin'
the
war ~
(Never-the-less
years later
I enlisted
to even the score ~
But a
"sunshine soldier"
this
made me ~
As old Tom Paine
once done wrote
so
independently) ~
When the War
ended
the
Movement was keen ~
The most pop-
ular thing
we
ever done seen ~
"Love Peace and Freedom!"
fine-
oh-
ly won out ~
But it transformationed
into a
"Sex Drugs and Rock n' Roll"
shout ~
And
now
we
have AIDS ~
Along with some other
some-
what
demonic shades ~
About which we
in the West
don't know
what to dooooooo ~
And me?
Well now
I'm
Deep Desert Bluuuuuuue...
"Hovering Spector"
work & copyright by R. Geoffrey Blackburn