Delta Season

 


Whether yellow shades of orange linger
this year has not yet been herd 'round.

Weather withers or exhilaratingly clings
as fear's rot kisses its irrational ground.

Together apart debating our superstrings
merely a lube to master the spellbound.

Pleasure inculcates a mental growth-ring
nadir/zenith/infinity feel very profound.

Treasure the bacterial "Borg" everything
commandeer life within without sound.

Tether-symbiosis requires no worshiping
pap smears all contain God the Fecund.
 
 
 
 
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Zabadak!

 
          A 1967 song you have never heard a single note of by a band you have never heard mentioned in your entire life.  Mesmerize.  Theorize. 
 
          To name your band Dave Dee, Dozy, Beakey, Mick & Tich may not have been 50-years-ago-unusual but a name like that would have left gouge marks in the wallpaper both going in as well as after rigor set in and I had to dispose of the polyester ear-worm somehow.  Somehow.  *tension in my wrists to begin the Ward of Transmittal*  Which is why I know I have never heard of these five blokes.  Now, now we have. 
 
          However, the feat here was to never have any snippet of any one of their song(s) ever hit my eardrums, ever.  They must've (all five of em) traveled the world ahead of me paying radio stations to not mention them and not play their songs while I was in range.  Yea.  That's my theory and I'm stickin with it.
 

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Wonderfully Obscure Song by Reunion


          Occasionally a 'one-hit wonder' becomes a 'classic'.  This one never did.  I loved this song so much in 1974 that I tried to write it all down and memorize the lyrics—just from repeat radio listening's.  Today, a plethora (today's word boys and girls!) of lists are a click away:  "Lost One Hit Wonders;" "Classic Golden Oldies;" or "Deep Album Tracks" and this song is almost certainly not on any of them.

          Thirteen years later, R.E.M. released It's the End of the World As We Know It (it's time I had some time alone) and the rambling poetic stream of prose, names, situations, and its long staccato-list of ways the world has changed (e.g: ... team reporters baffled, Trumped, tethered, cropped ...) reminded me of Reunion's Life is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me) and my Asperger's re-reminded me to ask those people in my vicinity if they ever remembered it.  And I've occasionally asked more and more people ever since then.

          Not one person has ever replied 'yes'.

          I can't be the last person to remember this song with a smile!  (Can I?)