Brain Stew

Note by note you learn

to play along – Goodbye

Pork Pie Hat -  Brain Stew –

Flight of the Wounded

Bumblebee – Word by word

One fish, two fish, red fish,

blue fish – We – The – People –

In the  - Beginning! – Numbers

Philosophies – Prayers and

armed conflicts – RBI’s

ERA’s – Faces! - - -

Carved in stone –

Stamped and printed on

currency – Heroes – Leaders –

Oppressors – All dead –

Or dying – We learn – We

remember – Pinch of salt –

3 cups of sifted flour –

We remember – The first

time – My eyes – Met yours –

The last time – I held –

Your hand – The first time

doing something right – Was

worth more than doing what

you were told – The first

time a fight was worth

fighting – Even though you

knew you were going to

lose – We remember – We –

Build – The notes become the

song – The words become the

speech – The colors –

The painting – The wars become

the world – The faces become

skulls in the rain –

transients in the crumbling

waves – The notes corrode – And

we find we no longer desire

to play Brain Stew – But

to sing our own song – To

write our own story.