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Simultaneous - Puscifer
So the first time I saw him was at the annual city festival
At the end of the plaza on uh
Punker Hill
Also known as the island of misfits
Um it's like a mound of black leather
And army surplus jackets and boots
And spiky egg white hairdos and Mohawks
And second generation exploited
And minor threat and sex pistols patches and stuff
Basically a haven for the misunderstood
Punk-y rock-y goth-y woe is me types
And uh and there he was right in the middle of it all
Um oversized yellow foam rubber cowboy hat
And pink plastic Toys R Us pistols and holster
Off white dashiki uh shirt
And tattered bell bottom jeans
Leather feet Raleigh cigarette finger stains
And he was an island within an island
And I just kinda had to know more
So I uhh I sat with him for hours
Just trying to get a bearing on his beautiful insanity
Every third inquiry was met with you know
An eloquent but unusual response
And you know the subsequent exchange
It kinda warranted continuing the conversation
'Cause he was he was interesting
Uh course the other
The other reason my efforts where dismissed
While he took in the constant flow of the festival crowd
All around us
A raging river of multi cultural music art food families
Uh all of this with his Walkman at full volume
I think it was foreigner playing through the headphones
And I asked maybe you know
Hey maybe you could turn that down so we can talk
And he replied can you hear me
And I said yes
He said well then it's fine
He never really pretended not once
To be able to organize all of this chaos
That was going on around us
Uh he just unapologetically chose which pieces to focus on
Well you know
After a few hours we seemed to have found our stride
Found our rhythm kinda settled into it
And we're having these intermittent conversations
Uh flipping back and forth between the chaos and the focus
And then just kinda out of no where
He seemed to become a little unsettled and disturbed
And I asked him what was wrong
And he just blurted out peanut parents in syrup
And then he looked at me like I would know what that means
And then he said
You have any batteries
So basically his
His Walkman was running out of power
And he just needed batteries
So before I could ever turn
And ask one of our fellow punkers for some double A's
He grabbed my face with both hands
And then for the first time in the entire conversation he
Gave me his complete focus and attention completely present
And calmly said
We will never know world peace
Until three people can simultaneously look each other straight in the eye
Should the oceans rise
Should the sky come falling down
Should the islands tremble beneath us
See our better nature blossom
Should the sun rain fire
Should hell on earth freeze over
And our inner beast wake hungry
See our better nature feed them
Should the sun rain fire
Should hell on earth freeze over
And our inner beast wake hungry
See our better nature feed and calm them
Find a way through around or over
Find a way through around or over
Find a way through around or over
Find a way through around or over
Find a way through around or over
Find a way through around or over
Find a way through around or over
