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Green Day Yesterday

Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, and Tre Cool which trio known (the world wide web over) as the band Green Day composed lyrics and melodies this listener did imbibe analogous to downing musical fuel no matter the lead singer supposedly never graduated from high school, yet raw bits of primal utterance approximated talent galore, which excessive indulgence with amber liquids of the dogs or flagrant downing consciousness expanding material filled the airwaves of soundstage and/or studio with snapping, popping, and crackling rhythmic synchronicity evoking images of warm from a Yule tide burning log. I (a common, easy going, generic kid) spent childhood years practicing the piano, which tickling the ivory (way before realization brought to my attention, how elephants illegally poached and slaughtered), for shear sporting whim pounded the keys with vigor and vim speculated at how dissimilar mine fate, would possibly be if dedication sustained to be a self driven task master while mollycoddling the baby grand, perchance me billfold and financial accounts would not be extremely paltry and slim reflected then and now, on one of those “what if...could a, should a would a...” hypothetical queries and wonders if Robert Frost enshrined and rim mem bored viz signature ruminating about “The Road Not Taken” might fancy himself joining a seminary (rather peculiar though from an atheist) obeying behavioral edicts (with no discipline required from “religious fathers”proper and prim, but un-natural suppression sans animal, carnal, feral...predilections finds thoughts quickly being dismissing cuz of such restrained celibacy codas, and even preferring to be dangling (literally), and holding on for dear life from a rather straggly limb even clinging with diminishing strength resorting to contriving a rip public kin battle Hymn knowing likelihood for immediate salvation grim er ring, and fading outlook Whatsapp eared dim getting anxious, and minimally cautiously optimistic that When September Ends piercing me flesh with pellets of cold rain grip upon the slippery bark will induce greater anguish emotional pain unsure if mine demise will be a cometh, as grim reaper doth gain another mortal, whose life cut short will induce a gaping hole within thy family chain.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2017




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