The group becomes its own entity, inseparable and separate from the coherence of each individual member, like a bastard mafia always ready to perform its ethic of collective anonymity.
— Read on harmonyholiday.substack.com/p/a-new-theory-of-the-entourage-part

and the laws changed 
and you couldn’t leave as much
if you didn’t have the right color passport
and i had to go visit my friend in london

they had a green passport
and mine was blue 
and we was blue
and mines was blues
and yours was too

and we laughed at it
we had to laugh 
kept us from dying
and we kissed
the possible 

“Hey. I tell you what is. Big city, hmm? Live. Work, huh? But. Is not city open. Only peoples. Peoples is peoples. No is buildings. Is tomatoes, huh? Is peoples, is dancing, is music, is potatoes. So, peoples is peoples. Okay?” – Pete (Louis Zorich), a Manhattan restaurateur, to Kermit the Frog, offering perhaps the best statement of life wisdom depicted in cinema, in The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984).
— Read on www.chronologicalsnobbery.com/2007/12/peoples-is-peoples-speech-muppets-take.html

the wedding was postponed
not for lack of love 
but the abundance of it
we wanted courtship to go
on and on and on 

wedding was postponed
cuz we wanted to keep 
each other closer than 
bonds of servitude 

the ring was scrapped
and made into 
necklaces that still hang
and we hangin on to us
yeah, forever