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Remember that moment you thought you were a badass. The next day, it was different, you weren’t and you knew it. Years later you recognize that the world is not the world you knew or thought you knew, nor is it the world that anyone has ever known or will ever know.

The realization is a missile exploding in your ears….uh uh oh.

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the poem:

oh oh oh oh oh oh ohhh
ode to the glory days
when we had and we had
and we knew only knew the strength of our sinew
the limbs were strong the spirit was intrepid
we believed we knew we were always self directed
like youth can do we always knew best
knowing everything everything and less

oh oh oh uh uh oh ohhh
innocence only visits
and stays for a little while
it’s a mood that strays
over a few unexamined miles
exposed to history then the daily news
perspectives can weaken lo and behold
here come the dissenting views
it’s like a train wreck
it’s like an unexplained mirage
one day your standing up
next day you’re on the asphalt
and looking up at the stars
oh oh oh uh uh oh ohhh
the heart’s still beating
but the building is falling apart
the road ahead has a detour
and tomorrow won’t even start
potholes fill the boulevards
the infrastructures crumbling
little fragments everywhere ironically tumbling
but it keeps the workers busy picking up the debris
of what keeps falling falling falling away from me



oh oh oh uh uh oh ohhh
here here here away we go again (repeat entire line)
i can’t see straight but I haven’t lost my glasses
it’s just the speed at which everything passes
I’ve got stones to blast and scatter the remains
over the days the days that have passed

oh oh oh uh uh oh ohhh
i can’t stand up for this falling down
i can’t get lost for this being found
that orange glow that’s just up ahead
well it’s rust on the spikes
the trestles are warped
this (algorithm) just can’t be right
circles are squares triangles are pairs
and all of the sounds of this world
are much more noise than I can bear
wish i had a whistle to warn all of the birds
wish i had a missile to deliver these words
oh oh oh uh uh oh ohhh

credits

from A Prelude Of The Aftermath, released May 14, 2022
The words were written and performed by Walt Kosty (ASCAP-Studio Magnolia). The Music was composed, arranged, and performed by Ralph Bendel
(ASCAP-Studio Magnolia). Ralph used a Godin Nylon string guitar and a Fender Telecaster with both a Boss SY300 and the Roland GR55 synthesizers. Percussion is the Alesis SR16. The Photo Was taken by Ralph, of Walt, "on the asphalt lookin' up at the stars" in 1987.

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