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 

the ghost of ellis come to me at night
scream-in my ear bout all not right 
       can’t stand stay this way of living
       cuz I’m from black upbringing 
the ghost of alton croon to me 
about all that life could really be
       never never got the right to say
       never really got the chance to do 
       all I’ve got is the right to pray 
       harder harder and harder 
alton remind me 
about earth her lovely beauty
      cuz when the rain fall 
      everything gets green and tall
      wide woooooooooorld
      yr so understanding 
alton lion africa man  
alton the lover african 

I make like quick with my hands
and be finding new things in stands
In field afar from home where I came from
I found you sit-in’ pretty lookin lovey
dovey peace out peace in be in be out 
of work of love of life of time of now
is the time to be here lovings you
baby o gawd feel another one comin 
dew on birthings keep on birthings 
motheringssmotheringseasoning 
         bringining into 
         trustening you to bustle in 
and not know anywhen to settle then