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The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes = G. CARLIN...Stain glass, engraved glass, frosted glass
–give me plain glass = JOHN FOWLES...Music is the mathematics of the gods = PYTHAGORAS...Nothing is more fluid than language = R. L. SWIHART
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>I think therefore I am troubled = RENEE DESCARTES<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
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Saturday, August 2, 2014

Psychedelic Pulchritude* Of The Monkees

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Daily, Nightly
First rock recording to feature the Moog synthesizer

Darkened, rolling figures
move through prisms of no color

Hand-in-hand, they walk the night
but never know each other

Passioned pastel neon lights
light up the jeweled traveler

Who, lost in scenes of smoke-filled dreams
find questions, but no answers

Startled eyes that sometimes
see phantasmagoric splendor

Pirouette down palsied paths
with pennies for the vendor

Salvation's yours for just the time
it takes to pay the dancer

And once again such anxious men
find questions, but no answers

The night has gone and taken it's infraction
While saddened eyes hope there will be a next one

Sahara signs look down upon
a world that glitters glibly

And mountain sides put arms around
the unsuspecting city

Second hands that minds have slowed
are moving even faster

Toward bringing down someone who's found
the questions, but no answers

Performed by The Monkees
Written by Mike Nesmith
© EMI Music Publishing



*
The editor, on a presumptous note
considers it his duty
to define the word PULCHRITUDE...
it simply means beauty
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8 comments:

  1. Poem so lonely
    Is use of "pulchritude" usually associated
    with women, your intention here?

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  2. Rather than think of poems
    as lonely or lovely
    or hot or cold
    a poem is either good or bad.

    "Pulchritude" was used in conjunction
    with the other P-word
    of the title...

    A MONKEE page is nothing new
    to Good/GodFatherland but a
    Peetnik conversation inspired
    this one.

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  3. Pfffft! This "P" word so comes in handy!

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  4. "P" words have power & personality,
    the Peetnik said.

    ReplyDelete
  5. Plenitude of
    Paulatorium
    Planetary
    Pleasures!
    Phat? What?

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  6. Replies
    1. Oh…PLEASE...listen to the song...
      all you have to do is one little clicky thing.

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