Moment . . .

https://www.wired.com/story/stay-in-the-moment-take-a-picture/

Hey you down there on the ground

Don’t you think that it’s time 

You should fly

And do you consider the cost

Of the pride that you wear 

Like a smile

Take this moment

You’ve got here

You may not 

Get another try

Sometimes only

One chance comes around

At a time

It’s two that’s the number required

For the dance that we do

To get by

A few drag you into the mire

But they’re strong

Many wiles they devise

Doomed if you don’t learn

Farce is what you earn from the tragedy

What have we to gain

By being stubborn?

Moment
- the the forthcoming release 'Grains'



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Aces . . .

 

https://pixels.com/featured/3-pocket-aces-aaron-geraud.html

When I see that look upon your face

I know that I’ve been dealt an ace of hearts.

Something starts.

Pulse is pounding like a conga drum.

The blood goes rushing to and from my head,

Turns my face to red.

So ante-up and hit me once then hit me twice.

The stakes are high. 

You know I’ve got to keep as cool as ice.

This game we’re in together

Could end as quickly as it starts.

But I’ll just take my chances.

I’ll just take my chances

Cause I know that I have you

And you’re my . . . 

Ace of hearts.

I know that I have you and you’re my 

Ace of hearts.

Deal me in I’m staying for the course

And if I lose don’t feel remorse for me.

You will always be

In my every breath and in my soul.

When chips are down you take control and then

Bring me back again.

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Deluded . . .

http://searchingforlaugh.blogspot.com/2020/08/eating-shrub-of-delusion.html

Would I just dare to review all the facts

And reach a conclusion,

And accordingly act?

Is it genuine influence

That these actors exert

To convince me that truth

Is a thing to pervert?

Is there nothing not tried 

To increase my confusion?

Is the price well worthwhile

To promote this delusion?

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Fishy? . . .

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 . . . most likely. They said I've been 'chosen'. (Sounds like a religious experience.) More sharks, I suspect.

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Don't Go Near the Water
- The Beach Boys



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All That's Gold . . .

 . . . doesn't glitter

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/428897564485976749/

(from https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/eric-clapton-s-covid-vaccine-conspiracies-mark-sad-final-act-ncna1281619?fbclid=IwAR0LCeJky_KUs0-

By Jeff Slate)

". . . (Eric) Clapton may have been branded Rolling Stone magazine’s second-greatest guitarist of all time, and is a three-time Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee who has inspired legions to try to follow in his footsteps, but the shiny veneer papering over his belief systems has always been paper thin. . . Since last year, Clapton has repeatedly used his vast platform to do his utmost to undermine expert medical advice. . . . He has opposed lockdowns and made suspicious claims about the dangers of vaccines. This spring, he said . . . that scientific studies, expert opinions and public health recommendations extolling the importance of vaccines were “propaganda,” . . . But many fans still seem to have been caught by surprise. In a lengthy piece this month by writer David Browne in Rolling Stone — which has treated the artist with reverence for more than half a century — Clapton is painted as a conspiracy peddler of the highest order, and a racist of the lowest. . . The article also revisits Clapton’s 1976 racist rant from a stage in Birmingham, England, where he repeatedly shouted slurs and voiced support for the British demagogue Enoch Powell, known for his divisive, race-baiting “rivers of blood” speech in 1968. . . lapton has joked about or laughed off accusations of racism, as well as a 1968 Rolling Stone interview where he low-key insults Jimi Hendrix’s guitar playing and suggests the allure of Hendrix and other Black artists has to do with their genitalia. . . Clapton certainly has his defenders, especially among conservative anti-vaxxers. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, himself no stranger to crackpot conspiracy theories or race baiting, tweeted a picture of himself with Clapton backstage during the guitarist’s recent tour of red state arenas. . . But Clapton’s fans may be turning their backs on this legend amid what is likely to be his final act. . . It may be a sad end for one of the legends of the Golden Age of rock and roll, but it also feels fitting. Bigotry and ignorance, in the age of the internet, has a way of catching up with you. In a time when many of us are re-examining how our life experiences and information sources have shaped our world views, Clapton’s racism and conspiracy theories can no longer be ignored. . . "

Why Has Love Got To Be So Sad
- Eric Clapton



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Ambience & Wine

Super . . .

http://clipart-library.com/super-hero-cartoon-images.html

Should every man yield to the yearning unashamed
Without hypocrisy and wastefulness;
Squander the strength he’s been endowed with;
Feign superiority as tunnel vision’s all he sees?


I’m trying to develop a superman;
Dionysus evolving into perfect humanity.

Gadding about helping each other get along
Won’t make us build the kind of man I see.
Inferiors are weak copies of betters
Printed on bad paper from old and worn-out plates now gone.

Selection, survivors mastering;
Bettering the species, irrespective of
Everything you’ve ever learned
About what’s right or wrong.

You hear the word, you’re quoting scripture that you learned
Originating from a deity.
But should that motivate your actions?
Such self-serving rewarding scheme.
Yours or mine, that’s what both seem.

Superman
- from the forthcoming "Grains" by Ray Jozwiak - Gonzo Piano
 

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                  Chromatose

Words . . .

https://www.speaktolead.co.uk/tag/words/

(from The Premonition: A Pandemic Story by Michael Lewis) 

". . .  I am still having issues in VA with leaders avoiding the use of the term pandemic and then not wanting to implement key portions of the VA pandemic plan because this is not a pandemic," he wrote. "They will not say that word or use that word . . . They expect to see the term pandemic used by CDC and WHO. CDC continues to say this is not a pandemic . . . My response is that a pandemic is not defined by what is happening in the US - it is defined by what is happening across the world (pan=all, demic=people). . . I know that this is not CDC's intent but it is creating problems for bureaucrats who suffer from malignant obedience." . . . He and Richard and others had spent years creating and selling the ideas that would, if quickly seized upon, prevent a lot of Americans from dying. Those ideas were useful, and yet no one in authority seemed willing to use them. "We were going nuts," said Carter. . . "

Words
- the Bee Gees

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Demurred . . .

https://www.shutterstock.com/search/demur

(from https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/17/us/politics/coronavirus-vaccines-republicans.html)

". . . After Sherri Tenpenny, a Cleveland-area doctor, falsely suggested during a hearing last month in the Ohio House of Representatives that Covid vaccines left people “magnetized” and could “interface” with 5G cellular towers, Republican lawmakers thanked her for her “enlightening” testimony. . .“We don’t control conservative media figures so far as I know — at least I don’t,” Senator Mitt Romney, Republican of Utah, told The New York Times recently. . . ". . . I think it’s an enormous error for anyone to suggest that we shouldn’t be taking vaccines.” . . . Anti-vaccination sentiment isn’t new to Republican voters. During the 2016 Republican presidential primary race, a number of candidates, including Donald J. Trump, repeated debunked theories that vaccines caused autism in children. Around that time, Republican state legislators began opposing laws that would tighten vaccine requirements for children. . . As Covid cases across the country rise, nearly all recent hospitalizations and deaths have occurred among unvaccinated people, White House officials have said. . . Mr. Trump has eagerly taken credit for the accelerated development process of the vaccines, and has urged Americans to get vaccinated. (He did, however, quietly receive a vaccine in private before he left office, rather than hold a public event for the shot that might have encouraged his supporters to follow his lead.) . . .Less than a week later, Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican minority leader, encouraged Americans to get vaccinated, citing his experience as a childhood survivor of polio. . . “We have not one, not two, but three highly effective vaccines, so I’m perplexed by the difficulty we have finishing the job,” he said. . . Yet when asked by a reporter whether some of the challenge could stem from the words of members of his own party, Mr. McConnell demurred. . ."

Demure
- by SHREZZERS

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Radio, Radio . . .

 

So you had better do as you are told

You better listen to the radio

Wonderful radio

Marvelous radio

Wonderful radio

Radio, radio

    -Elvis Costello

Ray Jozwiak Radio
- Spotify

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Buying Power . . .

https://www.istockphoto.com/photos/buying

So I said,

I've got a roof o'er my head.

Some people can't even say the same thing.

But it's still not a fact

I can take any comfort in.

I want more to make up my legacy.

I'm not poor but everybody's telling me

Money can't buy everything.

You've heard it time again.

No money can't buy happiness.

When will you learn this fact of life my friend?

So I said,

I've got my very own bed.

I don't give it much thought

When I lay down my head.

But it's cold and it's lonely

In December on the street.

Why do you tell me these kinds of things.

I want more of luxuries that wealth can bring.

I want to be a squire a king a country gentleman

If I can if I can.

I want to get respect for what I have 

And not for what I am, 

Just a man, just a man.

So I said,

It's more than daily bread

That I'm talking about.

Can't you hear what I said?

You see, everything changes 

But we have to admit,

What exists needs to be recognized,

Not merely out of our fear of being chastised.

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Critic’s Choice

Thousands . . .

https://www.istockphoto.com/photos/thousands-people

 . . . of Apologies!

To all readers of this blog I offer the sincerest and most-heartfelt of apologies. I have just discovered that the email address on my profile with Blogger is (long-ago) incorrect. I have not been (purposely) rude or unfeeling. I am not too busy to acknowledge or respond. I am not arrogant nor self-indulgent.  My ego is

no bigger than that of most folks. 

I truly am so, so, sorry. You will find that the email address listed is accurate and will now work.

So I hope you will drop me a line, follow this blog and, most of all, 

Forgive me!

I'm Sorry
- Brenda Lee



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Attraction . . .

 

https://www.stanfordmagnets.com/8-tips-for-the-use-of-magnets.html

Every hair upon your head

Has got to be in place for the camera.

Every place you happen to be

The people stare.

Cause, you are not the main attraction.

But oh, how you wanted to be.

Don’t equate each little thing

That happened in the past to the present.

Don’t expect each person to see

The things you see.

Do you ever think of anyone else?

Does concern come crossing your mind?

There’s enough conceit under your own belt

To last a lifetime.

If your dreams should ever come true,

I’ll see that spiteful face on the cover

Of a tabloid where the headline reads,

“She wants to be . . . “

Nothing but the main attraction.

But oh, how you wanted to be.

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erfrr

So Much . . .

 . . . to feel, so hard to say . . . 

https://stock.adobe.com/search?k=cartoon+lips

Is it age, is it wisdom, is it merely human?

The movies, the news, the books and the magazines are full of it. 

It's beautiful.

It's tragic. 

It's scary.

It's uncertain.

It's joyful.

It's full of potential

And details ripe for elucidation, 

But I'm currently unable.

Maybe tomorrow.

Maybe Tomorrow
- Badfinger

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Back Porch . . .

https://www.drivenbydecor.com/back-porch-ideas/

The stars lay in a blanket above.
A gentle breeze blowing in from the sea.
The last light flickers from one lonely candle.
Never before was a night half as perfect
For you and me.

But there was a party last night. 
Yes there was a party nextdoor,
‘Cause there’s a boy sleeping on the back porch.

You would have noticed a pin drop that evening.
The peace and calm when romance fills the air.
Ambience oozing from Coltrane and Hartman.
And barely twenty feet away, we’d no clue
What was happening there.

No blaring rock and roll.
No bottles on the walk.
No screaming, shouting and no fight.
Nobody called the law.
No sirens in the night.
Just one young man, stretched out on a chaise,
Sleeping it off.

Occasions such as this should be savored.
The combination of circumstance rare.
You may just be the true love that I’ve searched for.
I think though, that the folks in the house that’s next door 
Just don’t care.

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Perfidy . . .

https://www.eupoliticalreport.eu/perfidious-albion/ 

What’s in a name

Words are just words

Such compromise

Faithless was she

Deceitfulness; treachery

Breeching a trust; perfidious

No way to know 

Well in advance

Now it’s all clear

Reaped what she sowed

She had to go

Dishonor waits 

On perfidy

Rising above 

Your misery

False man forgets worldliness

Minus or plus; perfidious

Cowards and fools 

Hiding beneath lies

Accusat’ry

In you just like me

Will not die

Duplicity; two-facedness

Untrustworthiness confuses me

Such perfidy

Disloyalty

Baseless intrigue

Can it go on 

Indefinitely;

Perfidy?

Perfidy
- Ray Jozwiak
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