Look . . .

 . . . before you buy

https://www.gettyimages.com/photos/comparison-shopping

(from The Reckoning: Our Nation's Trauma and Finding a Way to Heal by Mary L. Trump, Ph.D.)

". . . It was all so unnecessary. Nobody would have bolted from Donald's base if he had embraced a commonsense approach to COVID. Tens of thousands of lives would have been spared, and the economy, after a short-term hit, would have bounced back. His most deranged supporters would have hailed him as a hero - and a lot of his detractors would have, too. But Donald is constitutionally incapable of leading. . . "

I Should've Known Better
- The Beatles



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        Black & White Then Back

Us? . . .

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(from The Reckoning: Our Nation's Trauma and Finding a Way to Heal, by Mary L. Trump, Ph.D.)

". . . He made the pivot to the Big Lie in the earl morning hours after Election Day, before the results were even announced. He completely believed that he could turn things around. There was no reason for him not to - he always had. And let's face it,  seventy-four million of us, if the 2020 election results are any indication, never felt that they'd been betrayed at all. Or, worse, those voters put the betrayal to the side because they understood the degree to which having g a white supremacist in the Oval Office benefitted them . . . "

Who Am I
- The O'Jays


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            Ambience & Wine

Bitter . . .

 

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/food-news/a-gene

-that-makes-food-taste-bitter/photostory/72126430.cms

You never want to have to hear a word from me again.

Never want to have to see my face at your door.

If there's so much as the mention of my name,

You can feel an uncontrollable fit of pain.

I'm the one

That you said

You would love

Til the bitter end.

This must really be,

This must really be the end.

Nothing could be fitter.

This must really be,

This must really be the end.

Make no mistake it's bitter.

You never want us to be seen again in public places.

Can't explain it to another friend how it goes.

You say there's torment that you feel inside from many things.

I can tell you that I still don't know what that means.

Long ago,

We were friends,

Far removed

From this bitter end.

There's no candy coating

To make it go down easier.

Not so simple to digest.

No bright colors and no

Exotic flavors sweetening.

What you see is what you get.

You never want to have to hear a word from me again.

Never want to have to see my face at your door.

If there's so much as the mention of my name,

You can feel an uncontrollable fit of pain.

With one fell

Swoop, you sent

Me direct 

To the bitter end.

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            Another Shot

Dreams . . .

 

https://www.euronews.com/2015/06/17/napoleon-

one-of-the-founding-fathers-of-europe

Just when I thought my little 

Empire would never be conquered.

I was invincible. 

Went from the frying pan

Right into the fire.

Now I don’t care at all.

I’m one smooth operator,

But standing two feet tall;

Was like some great dictator.

Damn the coffee. 

Damn the sugar. 

Damn the colonies.

Where’s my future?

What awaits me?

I don’t want to be

Napoleon of broken dreams.

So when I got myself

A taste of that glorious power.

It was intoxicating.

The more I took became

The more that I wanted. 

But soon the thrill was gone.

Wanted to meet my maker.

I’ll pay for what I’ve done 

Just like that great dictator.

Could be people like me

Should be alone.

Nothing is ever enough;

Enough for this eccentricity.

It’s said, by nature, that a

Man can become territorial.

And I’ve been known to do it.

Simple offense became 

An outright obsession.

I got my just desserts.

Maybe I’ll see you later.

But still it could be worse

Just like that great dictator.

Broken
from the forthcoming "Grains" ©2021 Raymond M. Jozwiak

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For The Ride

Songs . . .

 

https://depositphotos.com/vector-images/song.html

(from https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Asian_Month_2021)

". . . The music of prehistoric cultures is first firmly dated to c. 40,000 BP of the Upper Paleolithic by evidence of bone flutes, though it remains unclear whether or not the actual origins lie in the earlier Middle Paleolithic period (300,000 to 50,000 BP). There is little known about prehistoric music, with traces mainly limited to iconographical evidence, as well as some simple flutes and percussion instruments. However, such evidence indicates that music existed to some extent in prehistoric societies such as the Xia dynasty and the Indus Valley Civilisation. Upon the development of writing, the music of literate civilizations—ancient music—was present in the major Chinese, Egyptian, Greek, Indian, Persian, Mesopotamian and Middle Eastern societies. It is difficult to make many generalizations about ancient music as a whole, but from what is known it was often characterized by monophony and improvisation. In ancient song forms, the texts were closely aligned with music, and though the oldest extant musical notation survives from this period, many texts survive without their accompanying music, such as the Rigveda and the Shijing Classic of Poetry. Many cultures have coupled music with other art forms, such as the Chinese four arts and the medieval quadrivium. . . Historically, religions have often been catalysts for music. The Vedas of Hinduism immensely influenced Indian classical music, while the Five Classics of Confucianism laid the basis for subsequent Chinese music. Following the rapid spread of Islam in the 6th century, Islamic music dominated Persia and the Arab world, and the Islamic Golden Age saw the presence of numerous important music theorists. Music written for and by the early Christian Church properly inaugurates the Western classical music tradition,[4] which continues into medieval music where polyphony, staff notation and nascent forms of many modern instruments developed. In addition to religion, or the lack thereof, a society's music is influenced by all other aspects of its culture, including social and economic organization and experience, climate and access to technology. The emotions and ideas that music expresses, the situations in which music is played and listened to, and the attitudes toward musicians and composers all vary between regions and periods. Many cultures have or continue to distinguish between art music (or 'classical music'), folk music and more recently, popular music. . ."

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                               Put A Finger On It

Foreseeable . . .

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(from The Reckoning: Our Nation's Trauma and Finding a Way to Heal by Mary L. Trump, Ph.D.)

". . . It may have taken somebody like Donald to hold up the mirror in which we finally are able to see ourselves, but the possibility of somebody like him finding his way to the Oval Office was decades in the making. He is the symptom of a disease that has existed in the body politic from this country's inception, which has, because of our failures to root it out, let alone acknowledge it, metastasized infecting his followers and affecting the rest of us in ways we may not completely understand for the foreseeable future. . . " 

Let Me Tell Your Fortune
- J.A. & The Jitterbugs

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                 Critic’s Choice

Sand . . .

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2018/11/misc-sand-watch-id-51565.html

(from View with a Grain of Sand by Wislawa Szymborska
". . .Our glance, our touch mean nothing to it.
It doesn't feel itself seen and touched.
And that it fell on the windowsill
is only our experience, not its.
For it, it is no different from falling on anything else
with no assurance that it has finished falling
or that it is falling still. . ."

 
Grains
- forthcoming from Ray Jozwiak - Gonzo Piano
     

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                   Chromatose