Glittering . . .

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Gold and silver and platinum
Money, love and time
Many are our earthly desires
Be they secondary or prime

Many hours are devoted to the lofty pursuit
Of any explanation or rhyme
Try hard to stay grounded, distinguish between
The ridiculous and sublime


All That Glitters
©2017 Raymond M. Jozwiak
(from the unreleased 'Phatso' collection of improvisations on Moog Phatty



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Member . . .

Who doesn't want to belong
To something
A need that's bigger than us
You feel it deep in your heart
Desire for
Attention
A little trust
A little trust

Now I'm a member of the club
And I'm not really sure
How far it will get me
And I'm not really sure
How far I will go

I felt it so many times
That yearning
To be a part of it all
I couldn't understand why
I didn't
Fit into
Your kind of style
Your kind of style

I'm an out-
sider from so long ago
A solo
Performer
On my own road
On my own road

Why so much serious doubt
Consumes me
I can't be-
gin to describe
Just when I thought that I found
A greater
Confidence
I want to hide
I want to hide

Member of the Club
©2011 Raymond M. Jozwiak

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Aren't We All . . .

. . . otherwise blameless?



Foreclosing on widows homes
Is one thing I’ve not done
But if truth be told
That’s only one
The life that I led before
Left nothing to be desired
High on the hog
Until I was undone

Otherwise blameless
Upstanding citizen true

Otherwise
(in progress)

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Ideal . . .

. . . world? . . .


In an ideal world
We would offer what we do best
To whomever needed or wanted it
Without recompense
And in turn would
Receive what we needed (or wanted) most
Without cost from those that could provide it

No one would covet
What they did not need
No one would desire
More than they actually needed
All would readily offer help
To those in need
Not because of a mythological eternal reward
But simply because it is the correct thing to do


Perfect World
©1997 Raymond M. Jozwiak

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Resolve . . .

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". . . Wellness professionals tie resolution-setting gone awry (and most do) to an increase in depression, insomnia, weight gain and social dysfunction. . . The futility of a resolution starts with the pressure to THINK of a good resolution (because everyone is resolving to do something). Add to that the pressure of STARTING on time so you can count off the days with that new calendar. Most resolutions are overwhelming and all-encompassing…. and therefore, doomed to fail. . . The CEO who RESOLVES to spend more time with his family by taking some time off or fitting in some spare time is doomed to fail. . . The manager who RESOLVES to become better at leadership by keeping his eyes open for leadership courses is doomed to fail. . . The person who RESOLVES to lose 100 pounds . . .  by eating healthier food and exercising more is doomed to fail. . . All these resolutions are admirable but they are ineffective and toothless. . . According to a Forbes article, self-improvement, or at least the desire for it, is a shared American hobby. It’s why so many of us — some estimates say more than 40% of Americans — make New Year’s resolutions. . . But for all the good intentions, only a tiny fraction of us keep our resolutions; University of Scranton research suggests that just 8% of people achieve their new year’s resolutions. . ."

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Bittersweet . . .

Good intentions
Blacktop and fire
Prices are paid
for things desired

Celebrate now
Celebrate always
Celebrate everything
From spark to blaze

I know you're really happy
And soon we have to fly
But we will be more together
So there's just no need to cry


Bittersweet
©2018 Raymond M. Jozwiak

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More Work . . .

. . . on Working . . .


Some things never end.  One of those things is the ongoing desire to refine one's own creations.  Working was written almost twenty years ago, with lyrics. But the solo piano performance has never been recorded for public release.  Since its resurrection about one year ago, I find many sections of it benefit tremendously from subtle dynamic enhancements. Another benefit of all this 're-working' is the intimacy with the unusual chord changes over which the improvisation is undertaken. Only time will tell how, or even if, the song finally appears on a recorded collection in the future.


Working
©1998 Raymond M. Jozwiak

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Striving . . .

In a pocket-neighborhood sandwiched between the rolling hills of a 100 acre cemetery and a can manufacturing factory stood the rows upon rows of little brick houses joined at the hip, providing shelter for a multitude of lower, middle-class and mostly blue-collar families, straddling the border of the 'big' city to the west. It was here that our protagonist lived the initial twenty-two years of his life learning about the world, in general, and learning about music. It's only now, after the passing of an additional thirty-eight, and additional learning about the world, in general, and about music, that he speaks through the music, as if it were second nature or even purely instinctual, about events, observations, people, places, emotions, wants, needs, pleasures and pains that have transpired throughout the entire period. Only now, the process of codifying, recording or documenting, if you will, the vignettes of music and lyrics, has somehow become more difficult whether due to a dearth of uncommitted hours or simply an impediment brought about by advancing years or even waning talent. It's not that a desire does not lie beneath the surface of a, what some may label, mundane existence, because surely he does not view his presence on this orb mundane by any means.  It seems that the entire process is interrupted, more often than not, by other things and that although the intent is to return to that divine pass-time to complete individual, pre-meditated works, the reality is that only on rare occasions is completion now actually accomplished. He does, however, spontaneously create constantly and prolifically, telling tales of bold, juvenile adventures, characters of shady as well as honorable reputations, encounters with wonders of nature, lessons culled from a multitude of days now spent an memories which elicit a gamut of emotions both mature and not. 

Way It Is

©2016 Raymond M. Jozwiak

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Complexity . . .

Childhood is so gloriously simple, for those fortunate enough to have caring, loving and providing parent(s). I was fortunate. I can still recapture, or should I say remember, that carefree feeling that was my life for, what now in reality was, a few short years. There is no deep-seated desire to return to those times.  They were wonderful for what they were. . . a beginning.  An introduction. A primer. I recall a time when I perceived all adults to be 'wise' (for lack of a better word) simply by virtue of their years.  And rightly, thanks to Mom and Dad, accorded them the proper respect that adults were due as a result. I'm not certain when, but at one point, most probably shortly after entering school, I realized that things would not remain as easy going as in the past. The status quo was about to be shaken.  There would soon be additional responsibilities, or complications, in my simple, carefree life. Again, rightly so. Now, in addition to having to decide in which direction I would ride my bike, whether I wanted grape or cherry-flavored bubblegum and what television program I would watch upon my arrival home, I had to integrate several hours of school, some homework, new friends and a social component to which I was quite simply not accustomed. 

It's Complicated
©2017 Raymond M. Jozwiak

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Familiar . . .

©2011 Baloocartoons.com

. . . it's our news media's FAVORITE subject . . .



dem·a·gogue
ˈdeməˌɡäɡ/
noun
a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular desires and prejudices rather than by using rational argument.
synonyms: rabble-rouser, agitator, political agitator, soapbox orator, firebrand, fomenter, provocateur
"he was drawn into a circle of campus demagogues"
(in ancient Greece and Rome) a leader or orator who espoused the cause of the common people.

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Snappy . . .

. . . don't you think? . . .

Shouts in the street

I hear them as I'm walking home

Shoes on my feet

Touch down and take off as I roam


Dreams lifted up

So many pies in the sky

U-flying-o's

I duck them as they fly on by


Tomorrow takes care of itself

Today has its trial and its call

Janus he waits at your door

Rising or breaking his fall

You've got your "Time"

And secrets that love has betrayed

The long yellow line down your spine

That your feeling has frayed


Take my hand we may see

Everything we mean to be


When we meet again

Should it be under blanket of night?

All that remains

Is the matter of choice in disguise


Take my hand we may see

Everything we mean to be

Am I with you or you with me?

We have our time then take our leave


Deep in the heart

Where paradox finds its resolve

Long bodies live

They've learned how to bend to absolve


Now desire is the tie

That holds us fast to life

For the sweetness of the honey

Risk the peril of the hive


Now I'm running through your veins

In exchange I know your pain

All the lies have run aground

And to this earth I'm bound



Shouts In The Street
By John P. Graboski
(non-commercial recording by OHO - Jay Graboski, David Reeve & Ray Jozwiak)




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Good. . .

. . . for you. . .

Do we really know what is good for us?  Just watched a flick from '96 called Citizen Ruth which asks that, among other questions.   I remember in my early working days encountering homeless people downtown and wondering if my giving them a dollar was actually a benefit to them.  Then there was an episode of LA Law (I think), where one of the attorneys took an interest in a homeless woman and went to great pains to get her involved in a program that would help her become a stable, self- sustaining citizen.  Turns out the woman did not want the help of the attorney at all.  She merely wanted cash to satisfy her immediate need or desire, no matter how temporary, superficial or unhealthy.  She was, in the end, quite content with her homeless lifestyle.

Ruth, in the movie, was similar.  And while she became involved with people who, unlike the attorney, offered her help under the guise of beneficence but were merely using her situation to further their own (political, in this case) agenda.  

How true to life.  

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Fifteen. . .

Fifteen minutes of glory
Maybe less
What I wouldn't give for the chance
To confess
All my intimate secrets
All my hopes and my desires
I don't care just how valid
You think that they are
They've been mine for a long long time
And I'm not ashamed of them

Shut up Joe
How do you really know
What's going down
How can you tell if there's a problem somewhere
To be found
We all need to gather round
To help everybody else to see
That running your mouth aloud
Makes it that much more difficult
For you and me
And our integrity

Went to work at the factory
At fourteen
Thought I'd finish my schooling
Sometime in between
Drunken weekends and futile street fights
And the visits to my best girl
But the time slipped away
I've got bills here to pay
I've got small ones depending on me
My vision is limited

Shut up Joe
How do you really know
What's going down
How can you tell if there's a problem somewhere
To be found
We all need to gather round
To help everybody else to see
That running your mouth aloud
Makes it that much more difficult
For you and me
And our integrity

All my life I've known
I'd want to say
Something to my
Fellow man today
Couldn't let the facts
Get in the way.

We weren't that well acquainted
Never were
An occasional run-in
We preferred
There's one thing that we both believe in
Heard it over and over again
It was something about
All the fondness we felt
How the heart can't miss what's not around
If the mind doesn't value it

Shut up Joe
How do you really know
What's going down
How can you tell if there's a problem somewhere
To be found
We all need to gather round
To help everybody else to see
That running your mouth aloud
Makes it that much more difficult
For you and me
And our integrity


Integrity
©2008 Raymond M. Jozwiak




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