Relative . . .

https://www.gillette.co.uk/blog/facial-hair-styles/zappa-beard/

(from The Baltimore Sun, May 9, 1980 https://www.afka.net/Articles/1980-05_The_Baltimore_Sun_1.htm)

"Going through life as Frank Zappa when you're not the real Frank Zappa can be very strange. Francis Vincent Zappa, 39, is a world famous guitarist/composer and founder of the now-defunct Mothers of Invention. He will bring his act to the Baltimore Civic Center Sunday -- Mother's Day. Francis Xavier Zappa, 26, works at the Giant Food store on Loch Raven boulevard. He will be moving to Seattle at the end of the month to enroll in scuba diving school. He's one of many Zappa relatives living in the musician's hometown of Baltimore. "It's weird. You tell people you're Frank Zappa and nobody believes it. When I went down to the department of motor vehicles to get my picture license, the guy called my name out over the speaker and everybody turned around and said, ‘Where? Where's he at? Where's Frank Zappa?’ "Frank X. Zappa says having a famous name hasn't caused him any problems ("it's a good way to meet girls, a real conversation piece") though he does have an unlisted phone number. '"When I lived at home people would call the house at all hours of the night and ask for Frank Zappa. My parents would think it was one of my friends and get me out of bed. I'd say ‘hello’ and the guy would say, ‘Hey Frank man, I really dig you in concert.’ A lot of the calls would be from out of town." Frank X. doesn't really know his famed cousin very well. In 1962, the younger Frank's dad, Joe Zappa, moved the family to California to open a restaurant ("Eat More") with his late brother, Francis Vincent Zappa, Sr. Frank X. was only 8 years old. (Joe and his family returned to Baltimore shortly thereafter.) "The last time I talked to him was when he played the Civic Center in 1975. I asked him if he really enjoyed all the music he put out, and I kind of got the feeling that he didn't. "I'm not going to the show Sunday. I wouldn't feel right bugging him for tickets when we never talk any other time. His music is too spacey for me. When it comes to free tickets, I'd rather have Bob Seger for a cousin." Frank X's final statement about the celebrated branch of his family tree was, "I'm going to be famous one day, too. Just give me some time."

 
You Are What You Is
- Frank Zappa
 

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Maturity . . .

https://www.sltrib.com/news/2021/08/02/two-more-utahns-arrested/

(from Thomas Jefferson: The Area of Power by Jon Meacham) 

". . . Jefferson came to share Immanuel Kant's 1784 definition of the spirit of the era: "Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity," Kant wrote. "Immaturity is the inability to use one's understanding without guidance from another. This immaturity is self-imposed when its cause lies not in lack of understanding, but in lack of resolve and courage to use it without guidance from another.". . . "

All Grown Up
- Johnny Horton


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In Your Soul . . .

https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/where-is-the-soul/ 

(from The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare)
"The Man who has not Music in his Soul, 
Or is not touch'd with Concord of sweet Sounds, 
Is fit for Treason, Stratagems, and Spoils, 
The Motions of his Mind are dull as Night,
And his Affections dark as Erebus:
Let no such man be trusted.

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   Just More Music by Ray Jozwiak

Just . . .

 . . . my ego 

https://www.dreamstime.com/photos-images/ego.html

Sometimes I can get my point across,

And I do it rather well.

You can see

What I think

About me.

It's just my ego.

It gets the best of me.

It's just my ego

It just won't let me be,

It just won't let me be alone.

It's not one of my most redeeming qualities.

Still though it serves me rather well sometimes.

It won't be easy to just let it go,

It's just my ego.

I take such great pride in what I do.

Everyone should take some too.

Don't you think;

Pride in me,

Not in you?

There's a fine distinction between confidence and pride.

There's a fine distinction that I'll never know.

Cloaked with some discretion you emerge from the inside.

I emerge in all my glory. 

What is there to hide?

Mother said that I would never make

Any friends if I don't see

What I'm like,

If I don't lose some pride.

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                          2014

Decision . . .

 

https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/in-a-world-of-

endless-choices-why-is-decision-making-so-tiring

Which side are you on?

Choose just one or the other.

God forbid you should think for yourself.

Sure there’s strength.

Yes there’s strength in the numbers.

But sometimes, you must go it alone.

Are you a them-ist?

Maybe an us-ist?

One or the other.

Decision time,

Which will it be?

There’s a world out there

And it’s teeming with wonder.

At your fingertips is the power to learn.

But you must possess

A sincere kind of yearning

To know what is real from what either one says.

So much variety.

So many choices 

To simply settle for just one or the other.

Black or white;

Just left or right.

It’s chocolate or vanilla that we have.

We’ve got shit

That requires taking care of.

More important things

Than which side wins the game.

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        Black & White Then Back

Fungible . . .

. . . or non-?

Tell me please

What is ‘fungible’?

Tell me now

What is not.

What’s going on here

That’s so hot?

Anyone

Can buy a Monet print.

Only one

Gets the original,

Single definitive version.

Just what gives?

Mom won’t understand.

Here’s the thing,

You just can’t 

Simply replace it easily.

But perchance

someone’s interested

In the dance,

They will find

their way onto 

The crowded floor.

Spending all of your cryptocurrency.

Call it art, cause you want it so to be.

Skeptical

And excited too.

What will be

It’s real worth?

Value’s subjective certainly.

But its clear

If someone wants to buy,

I can sell, 

‘cause it’s mine.

Burn up the blockchain

Touch the sky.

You can now purchase a real music NFT created by me. Really!!  
Beyond (NFT)
by Ray Jozwiak - Gonzo Piano

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Dust & Gas . . .

https://www.dkfindout.com/us/space/solar-system/meteors/

Meteors that come once a year;
Quite a show of fireworks 
When you’re there to see them.
Shooting stars fantastically glow.
All too soon no one can say
Where they are or gone to.
Back on earth we average reside.
Most of us will never know such adoration.
So I go my ordinary way.
Do my job and feed my kids;
This world and wonder.

Dust and gas -
That’s what they’re made of.
Why all the fascination?

Fabulous! They’ll take your breath away.
They will dazzle with their style 
And their savoir faire.
Improvise; they make their own moves.
All the cattle follow close 
Behind from the pasture.

Why couldn’t I be
One among those many millions?
Why can’t someone see
My astrological worth?
What causes the sea
Of heavenly bodies to glow like they do?
Shining so brightly for me and for you.
Sooner or later they burn themselves out
But oh so beautifully.

Meteors have nothing to fear.
From their distant firmament
They shine for the masses.
Safe above, removed from earthly life,
From uncertainty that lines the 
Cloth of our mortal existence.

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