It Was Just Another Day...There I Was...Down By The "Ten Mile River"...At The "Waterfall"..Sitting Around With The Rest Of The Guys... Who Were Either On Disability..Or Something...(Nobody Works...Its Just Getting "Loaded" Every Single Day)...Then Theres The "Heat Of The Sun"...As It Makes Its Way To.... The "Other Side Of Tolerable"......A Time When It Was Every Man For Himself...(As Far As Shade Was Concerned That Is)....And Of Course...Everybody There Is Always Drinking.... Except For Me...................(I Just Cant See Getting Drunk On A Hot Day)...(And Then By The Time The Evening Arrives?)..(Youre Feeling Like)..(Enter Your Own Coined Phrase Here)
Its The Same Ole Bullshit Every Time I Go There...({Please...Dont Ask Me Why...I Dont Know)...Kind Of Like A "Soap Opera"
"But One Must Put Into Consideration... That All Of Us...(Around 60 Or So)...Are The Survivors... Of A Time And Era...When Smoking Pot..Poppin Pills..Shootin Up....LSD..Free Love....Protesting For... "Flower Power"..And "Make Peace Not War"...And Not To Forget "Black Lights" And "Posters"
We Survived The "Drug Generation"...When The "Weaker Ones"... Jumped Out Of Third Floor Windows...High On LSD And Thinking They Could Fly....When "Four Dead In Ohio" Were Shot Dead By The National Gaurd("Tin Soldiers And Nixons Coming")...When Charles Manson Used The Beatles Song..."Helter Skelter".... As A Reason To Kill People...And To Try And Start A "Race War"
When Martin Luther King ...John And Bobby Kennedy...Were Assassinated
When All The Major Cities Of The USA Were Burning(After Martin Luther Kings Assassination)
When The Song..."Eve Of Destruction"...Was Blaring Out The Truth.... Of The State Of The World
When We Listened To.."I Just Dropped In...To See What Condition My Condition Was In"
When The Hijacking Of Planes Was Something That Usually Happened Once A Week
(And Almost Always...The Destination Was Cuba)
When The Album... "Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band"...Took The Entire World By Storm...(Before That..All Songs Ended Abruptly...And They Usually Were About Broken Hearts)
But We Added Drugs ...And Head Phones......Along With Listening To That Album.....And Went Off Into Another "Space Of Being"...(Piink Floyds..."Dark Side Of The Moon"...Also Did The Trick Too)
We May Have Just Been... At The Most...Young Teen Agers Way Back Then...But Its What We Grew Up With
So...Back To The "Boys"
These May Be All Guys...But When It Comes To... "Talking About People"... When Certain Ones Arent There?"...They Beat The Opposite Sex By A Mile
And Yes...I Have Thought About It...What I Mean Is................When Im There..They All Talk About Somebody That Aint There...............Its Usually Kevin... Wholl Start... (After A Huge Gulp From The Bottle)......... The "Who Can We Talk About This Time?"...And ...Who Ever It Is Theyre Talking About Now?.....That Same Person Will Be There The Next Day.......................................And Then Kevin...Who Talked About Ray The Day Before....Will Have His Arm Around Ray...And Then... The Both Of Them...And Everybody Else Whos There...Will End Up Talking About.... Whoever It Is ....That Aint There At The Time
And Then It Hit Me... Like A Speeding Object
That Suddenly... And Abruptly.... Crashes Into... A 5 Foot Stone Concrete Wall
"Geeez"....(I Said To Myself ...Standing There Amongst All Of Them)
"I Wonder What They All... Say About Me"
"When Im Not There?"