i should get out more

by wiggly jones, "the little hippie boy"

i should get out more instead of sitting in my lonely head dreaming of days gone by that never existed gypsy dave and sunshine are gone so are winston churchill and jerry garcia we don’t have nixon to kick around any more nobody even remembers walter winchell o j is back in the news for a few hours rush limbaugh is disappearing over the horizon it is raining in butte montana but the sun is shining in sarajevo i should get out in the street in the world that has left me behind and just look around but would anybody notice me? i thought the streets would be empty but they are actually filled with people all looking at their smart phones and not at the sky or each other the streets used to be filled with clocks but now everybody knows what time it is they all beat to one heart the heart of the floating world the world that is floating away from the dreams of peace and love and ham and eggs words that were only words like “adumbration” or :defenestration” or “vladivostok”