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Song for Baudelaire

from Orphic Revival by Jay Karl Stevens// the Raven

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SONG FOR BAUDELAIRE

by J. Stevens

Write a book about drugs
People will want to give you drugs
My advice -- take them straight
Try not to get too mixed up
There are no casual trips
But a good buzz will always be
A good buzz & has been
Since we became foodsharing apes
In the Miocene
Full bellies, music, safety, laughter
But also risk, luck, danger
Raise the festal energies where and whenever
But never neglect the particular
Time is more than a million billion rhythms
And almost nothing is random
Except how seldom we notice
Any pattern & when we do
We want to hear it all the time
That line of Bowie’s
Turn and face the strange
Lovely suggestion
Don’t think I’m like this
With every new woman I meet
But eighty percent of you feels unique
And the other twenty percent
If it were a car
It would be a very small car
With lots of room in the back seat
What does it mean
When the first thing you notice
About a perfect stranger
Is their perfection
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from Orphic Revival, released November 11, 2013

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Writer and poet Jay Stevens is also the author of STORMING HEAVEN: LSD and the American Dream. He was writing partner with Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead on DRUMMING AT THE EDGE OF MAGIC and PLANET DRUM. Eddie Bogosian and Derek Young, are the principal sonffiers on this first expedition into orphic revivaland. ... more

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