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by wiggly jones, "the little hippie boy"

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are you quite through? quink had never seen maria so angry she pointed to the window zorg, the chauffeur, was standing beside the fountain and the moon was shining through the trees professor quinn told me a different story, quink began but maria turned and left the room quink decided he might as well finish his sandwich but when he looked around the tall red-haired maid was taking his sandwich and highball glass away which way was the front door? he found himself in a long corridor with an elevator an elevator? he had thought the house had only one floor he pressed the button and waited for the elevator as he did he remembered maria as she had been when they were children summering beside lake geneva before the peace talks broke down next

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by wiggly jones, "the little hippie boy"

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perhaps you have forgotten your quest for paradise no longer bite people on the leg and have learned to pretend to be nice the princess in the tower still ignores you as you pass by the pirates in the pool hall never thought you were a regular guy the puppy that you loved so much wants to play a game but you prefer to smoke your pipe to your eternal shame the portraits in your ancestral home still percolate on the walls but nothing is left in the iron safe but uncle paul’s golf balls pour another cup of coffee as you wait for lawyer smith the handyman left last evening but who did he leave with? you left your pink pajamas in a subway telephone booth your poems turn to popsicle sticks and your lies to truth next

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by wiggly jones, "the little hippie boy"

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oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh sometimes i feel so sad and remember the long ago days and the expectations i had though i walked the streets in a haze and ate at wendy’s alone and slept on a wet park bench my dreams had not turned to stone i defied the powers that were in their temples of metal and glass in their towers destined to fall when the truth was revealed at last it was only a matter of time it was obvious at a glance when rainbows would fill the sky and little children come out to dance but the days and the years went by the decades and the centuries and the towers are still there not even swaying in the breeze o dreamers unite! do not drown in the river of night keep alive the heavenly flame in the end it will turn out all right next

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by wiggly jones, "the little hippie boy"

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never seek to nullify the neverness of not do not despair, my darling give it all you’ve got the nectar of the nightingales is sold in little packets by nihilists and ne’er-do-wells in expensive dinner jackets you left a bowl of noodles on the vicar’s coffee table he will send a bill for damages as soon as he is able they found your old blue notebook on the beach where nora drowned she drank coffee by the gallon and ate candy by the pound how hard is it, really to remember your old friends though they never become famous or meet unseemly ends? let us gather at the river as the dawn is turning pale nancy may be in paradise but nicky is in jail next

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by wiggly jones, "the little hippie boy"

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fish are mad at the ocean birds are mad at the air snakes ate mad at the long green grass because life is so unfair people are mad at each other all the world around they poke fingers in each others faces and make hideous sounds all the world’s sad creatures crawl across the ground o where can fairness be encountered where can justice be found? prophets through the ages have proclaimed love as the answer but yet there is no peace on earth only hatred’s spreading cancer there is no cure for hatred buried in the world’s red heart maybe it is time to give it up and make a brand new start next

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by wiggly jones, "the little hippie boy"

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love love love love love on the wings of purple doves flying through the rain of fate lit by lightning bolts of hate nobody likes me this i know sometimes i wish it were not so luck smiled on me in days of old once or twice or so i am told there is a city by the sea forbidden to the likes of you and me the streets are paved with practiced ease demons whisper in the giggling breeze golden doorways open wide but who knows what is inside? weary pilgrims put down cash on vistas of unfathomed passion next

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by wiggly jones, "the little hippie boy"

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mommy, where is daddy? little katie cried he has gone away, my darling gone for a long long ride he shot a man in cheyenne with his trusty forty four now they’ll string him up in the morning and his feet won’t touch the floor oh mother say it is not so little katie wailed the moon is but an ember the horizon doth grow pale tomorrow leaves will fall from trees and highways glow with rain mothers will feed their children bacon and wild horses roam the plains waitresses will pour coffee for truck drivers named hank and lawyers draw up papers for the presidents of banks wise women will mix potions and wise men scratch their heads dogs and children jump and shout but poor daddy will be dead next

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by wiggly jones, "the little hippie boy"

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just because i don’t exist just because i have never been kissed just because i have no name and my life is such a shame just because my hair’s not curly and my teeth are not quite pearly just because i walk alone and my head is filled with stones just because you shake your head at the life that i have led and confidently assume that i am marked for doom will the sun not shine on me may i not dream of being free? if i find a dollar in the street may my heart not skip a beat? must only the beautiful and rich who never sleep in park or ditch and are never rounded up by the county enjoy the universe’s bounty? just because you can not see me and my skin’s not soft and creamy does not mean i can not dream as i float down time’s dark stream next

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by wiggly jones, "the little hippie boy"

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i am i and you are you what’s false for you for me is true if you could look inside my mind you might be surprised at what you find i walk the earth alone and cursed i who am last but should be first the lights are bright in windows high the night is dark i hear a cry a cry from the center of the earth is it a new age giving birth? is it a herald of the dawn or only the world just carrying on? next

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by wiggly jones, "the little hippie boy"

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in springtime i do wander i wander down the lane i see a fly caught in a web and feel its fear and pain a troop of ants comes up the road intent upon its task perhaps with some great purpose but who am i to ask? i see a bee attack a flower and admire its industry i hear a bird upon a branch singing wild and free i scan the flat horizon and spy a placid cow that may turn out a beefsteak but not right now for now the sun shines on the cow as it shines upon my head my head is feeling fine, thank you because i took my meds it seems so calm and peaceful but is always on the move i love everything and everybody because i am in the groove next

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by wiggly jones, "the little hippie boy"

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they live on the hill where little birds sing they go everywhere and have everything they sit by the pool butlers bring drinks they don’t care what anyone thinks with a flick of the ash of their big cigars they shake the earth and put out the stars they live high on the hog high on the hill they leave no pies on their window sill their names are henry and henrietta you think you know but they know better you cry for your pa you can weep for your ma but the hillside answers ha ha ha next

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by wiggly jones, "the little hippie boy"

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gerald was a g-man and hunted bad guys down and when the bad guys were locked up he was the toast of the town the ladies flocked around him like bees around a peach and all the mysteries of love to gerald they did teach gerald went to the steak house ordered three t-bone steaks and ate them up all by himself because he was not a fake the president called on gerald to go on a secret mission to serve the cause of freedom was gerald’s sole ambition gerald went to the station and climbed upon the bus and he has not been heard from since but you know he is saving us next

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by wiggly jones, "the little hippie boy"

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who killed the flowers? cried henry ford as he passed the plate and praised the lord what is this sun that dares not shine when all i want is what is mine whose are these eyes that laugh at me when all i want is to be free must petals fall when i walk by must birds and bugs avert their eyes were curses rained upon my name when little bob shot jesse james? a cloud passed by the poor man raved a raindrop fell on an undug grave next

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by wiggly jones, "the little hippie boy"

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e for effort f for fake it takes a big fish to swim a big lake fred was a fisherman true and patient he worked all week at the railway station he fished on sunday with his dog at his side he never caught big ed but he surely tried big ed was as smart as adam’s own snake it takes a big fish to swim a big lake next

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by wiggly jones, "the little hippie boy"

i dreamed i was a carrot and a rabbit was my best friend and we watched through a broken window as the train came round the bend old number nine old number nine oh old number nine when will you be mine? i dreamed that i was julia child and hitler was my mom but i could not get the pope to see where i was coming from i dreamed i was a cucumber drowning in a glass of bock as marx and lenin lectured me on the meaning of culture shock if all my dreams were pennies and the mornings all were candy i would sail through the air like a frigidaire and say that everything was dandy casey jones was my best friend and slept in a bottle of gin and he may not remember me but i remember him

poem for nobody

by wiggly jones, "the little hippie boy"

everybody is a dancer everybody is a clown everybody is an elephant when the circus comes to town everybody is a lion waiting to be tamed who dances the hoochie-coochie and then feels so ashamed everybody is billy jones trying to win a prize everybody is sally smith rolling her blue eyes everybody is slim carter reeling in the marks everybody is the bearded lady dreaming in the dark everybody is pastor wilson trying to close the carnival down everybody is mrs wilson sipping tea with a frown don’t you remember the old days when folks liked to have fun? i know that i remember but i may be the only one