Friday, December 27, 2024

Numb. 1249 Front Pages: Time O' The Shallowman

Random rhymes from my pen poured

a scribbling scrawl unbid

Sometimes in a Buddhist mood

it seems something I did

in some past life a foreign land

in this vast folderol

Looking back I have to say

I really fooled you all


Without me would there have been

a youth revolt at all

Without me would there have been

and Mary, Peter, Paul

I wrote the words I called the tune

primed status quo to fall

Looking back I have to say

I really fooled you all


Money flowed and praise bestowed

genius that I am

Lyrics that at most could boast

a whiff of past-date Spam

Smoking weed you thought my screed

made sense I recall

Looking back I have to say

I really fooled you all


With peace at hand I formed a band

a merry minstrelsy

and wrote of love and what's above

and broken memory

It was lame but money came

They play me at The Mall

Looking back I have to say

I really fooled you all


The times have changed and changed 

again to back where they began

What can then this portend

for dying Dylan fans

Is there crap deep perhaps 

beneath my great cash haul

Looking back I have to say

I really fooled you all


I'm told schnooks have written books

probed my life for facts

What's next jazz some razz-ma-tazz

Perhaps learn the sax

Leave the scene to Bruce Springsteen

like Fidel did to Raul

Looking back I have to say

I really fooled us all

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When young I voted Republican. Democrats? Union goons and Ku Klux Klan. Camelot Kennedy? Not my cup of tea. (Frankly, I thought it a scam. I was, by default, a Goldwater man.) Through Johnson and Nixon I lacked conviction. For Ford and Carter I couldn't bother. Then came Ronnie. The smarmy carny, hominy nominee. Time to change party! Bush, Clinton, Bush led to Obama which led us twice to our present trauma. (Ignoring here Joe Biden's years, which Trump, the disgrace, will erase.) Labor's diminished. Perhaps even finished. The Klan is a GOP brand. Anger predominates. A felonious reprobate holds country's fate in grabby hands. Still NOT a Democrat, although I vote like that. An increasingly frail, flailing old man. I proudly am an anti-Republican.

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