Diatribe

Conceptualize, analyze, format and monetise,

spread, diffuse,

distribute and homogenize.  Describe, reduce, and synthesize,

hypothesize,  and sanitize, experiment with elements to test for

what we know is best.  Reorganize, legalize, moralize and sanctify

the lies. 

Jhaffur

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Orchestre naïF – Auf Garde - Lyrics

Aloha  (Joel Banner Baird)

(Five for a Tenor)

Late cops swaying andiamo

Hot pastrami’s steaming south

Think again, you rosy creature, you:

I’ll be home, aloha.

Fran Japani, Aunt Deluvia

Oh! They’re testing our resolve

Rolling in a pot of “of-lay”

In your arms again: aloha.

                Did you not remark

                On the creature-less ark

                On the cinnamon, Andaman Sea?

                Hail tapioca

                Mera nam boca

                Hanker them all back to me….

                Aloha

Late cops swaying andiamo

Typhoon Tammy’s steaming south

Think again, you double-whammy, you

I’ll be home, aloha.

In your arms again, aloha

Aloha…..Aloha

I plead guilty (jhaffur khan azad darakth)

-to crow’s breath

-to mud splashed on a spleen vent

-to half bake and knee jerk

-to volumes spoken within mind

-to rampant stance

-to filtered strife

-to rooting hairs

-to rigid stares

-to prompted fright

-to shamming work

-to mouthing sound

-to water deals

-to three wheeled meals

--to falling madly, badly,

  into this fortunate-finite life.

Desk Jockey (jhaffur khan azad darakth)

He was a babu for social justice

Fighting for the rights of the poor

Desk jockey

Desk jockey  - VAH!

He was facilitating transformation

Leading the charge from his door

                Desk jockey

                Desk jockey -  VAH!

You know he shoveled his files

Like a real female farmer at her chores

                Desk jockey

                Desk jockey -VAH!

He was an activist babu crusader

With his chair firmly pinned

to the floor

                Desk Jockey

                Desk jockey -VAH!

His pen was a weapon

 for the weak

And there were real people

he didn’t bore

                Desk jockey

                Desk jockey - VAH!

He was a babu for social justice

And the movement never asked

of him more.

                Desk jockey

                Desk jockey -VAH!!

Kinda Satori

(Joel Banner Baird)

Brain not hard but softwire

Amazing mush

Felt web flatten

Heart felt web feels absence

When all adds up

Species feel needed

It’s kinda satori

Big kind blank theory

Creatures scrawl

With so many pencils

And so many dots

Small I strain

So listen up, y’all

Constellations

Part whiz-bang

Part shifty completion

By stupid luckies

Fluxing gyrations

Topple balance after balance

Sweet-timing harmony

So listen up yall

It’s kinda satori

Tender Slice of Deutsch

(Jhaffur khan azad darakth)

He takes his ambience,

when he finds it

with a tender slice of Deutsch,

kept precisely occidental,

in vanilla shorts (truncated),

clipped and careful

cheap and cheerful,

medium rare, well punctuated.