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Ahem,
Confession: Birthdays start to pile up after the big Four Oh. We begin
to feel like Rarities from the Bronze Age. When we're young we begin to
Wonder, world where have all our Dreams gone. Do You Know this Circus is
not Wonderful. All My Life I've tried to determine where I shoud Head First,
you know, What Should Be Done. It hasn't been an Easy Road over these last
Two Decades. I know that I come off as some Innocent Victim, all High and
Mighty. Think that of me, go ahead, I Won't Mind. That's The Way That It
Is folks. I'm not fishing for Sympathy. So Save It if you think this Very
Heavy (Very Humble, I'm trying to be) and very pretentious. I'm just lamenting
"oh youth's dreams, Why Did You Go? You've Been Away Too Long, Come
Back To Me!" And just claiming "Here Am I, and this is What's
Within My Heart, I should Celebrate! I wasn't Born In A Trunk, ya know.
But I ain't no Wise Man. Just don't feel the Greatest. Hits me with Tears
In My Eyes. When I take out the ole Birthday mirror I gaze and say "Rex,
Look At Yourself, Pilgrim, see all the Raging Silence at the wear and tear
on your Love Machine from your Gypsy ways. How long has it been, A Year
Or A Day? " Then as I drift of to thoughts of my imagined Paradise,
The Spell ends. But that is usually a Time of Revelation, enough to make
me get Suicidal, Man! I think "We Got Wee hopes to hang our hats on.
I'm trying to Stay On Top of my emotions.
Sheesh, aging is the great Equater. As age works its Conquest on us, we'll
be farmed out to the porch of some retirement home, providing leg Power
To The Rockers, wondering "Who Needs Me?", while we Weep In Silence.
Life, huh, I thought it would all be all like yearly gifts of champagne
wish, caviar dream, but it's mostly been Salisbury gravy, King Biscuit,
Flour: Our Presents. One Day I'd like to Return To Fantasy , but I know
that being On The Rebound is just a Beautiful Dream seen through Misty
Eyes. But I Wanna Be Free and One Way Or Another I'll Keep On Trying, because
I'm So Tired of being a Prisoner of no Easy Livin', growing old while time
keeps showing a Blind Eye to the years wearing us down like some Bird Of
Prey. If I Had The Time, I'd proclaim "Wake Up, Set Your Sights, It's
Time To Live". Then maybe then Poet's Justice would Rain on we Dreamers.
One shouldn't have to Sell Your Soul for Sweet Freedom. That's a ploy ot
the big, bad Fallen Angel. I know, he's kept me Chasing Shadows Of Grief
(Plus, I was as turned backwards as Le d In black. Woe, man Of The Night!
Woe, man Of The Whirled senses!) and Echoes In The Dark until the Sunrise
came on the Other Side Of Midnight like some Magic Lantern, then it looked
like a Different World in that Sea Of Light it cast off. What with The
Shadows And The Wind that went Rollin' On out of there, I felt like Stealin'
on out of there myself, not wanting a return of that enemy and his Running
All Night, With The Lyin' and all. That closest of thiS heaven's Stars
brought his Show down and made me realize that "I'm Alive!" You
should have seen the Fire fly. It was Something. Or Nothing, depending
on your viewpoint or if you are as confused as The Wizard on The Magician's
Birthday.
Old Fartsters, Think It Over, It's Your Turn To Remember. Whadya' Say,
Let's hear The Best Of y'alls Tales. Yes Sir, call Of Hands? This is an
open call to all age-Weakened Warriors. c'mon, sir Farts you are not alone,
there'll be no more Lonely Knights. Let's get this memory-Reel Turned On!
A little Walking In Yore's Shadow never hurt anyone. It is good, not bad
and as you recall your historical Footprints In This, Know this! You Can't
Keep A Good Banned Down. Lessee what noise we can Make, A Little? Love
to hear from ye! Why? Because of all this graceful aging BS. *Sigh* man,
The Bull, it Freaks me out, man. Makes my bowewls all Loosey. Blues overwhelm
me. Life should be Free 'N Easy.
Whew, thats the feeble best I could do (plus I'm missing the later Heep
catalog issues, so I was at a loss of (title) words.
Well it'll be a good birthday anyway.
"Don't cry over sour grapes!",
Rex Stocklin
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