My transmissions began when diamond said to coal, "why so yielding?" A journey The valley of quest The valley of love The valley of understanding The valley of independence The valley of unity The valley of astonishment The valley of deprivation
The quest You leave home The important part is you leave home Left home in search of where the orchid grows Found a lotus pond in Echo Park and got confused Met an Aristotelian and got to press him 'bout his awkward views Why you so quick to divide So hasty, devise and cut in two Knowing it's impolite to tarry, I went about my way And I don't like scary niggas so I ain't been around the way Picking spinach out my teeth from the (Florentine) Hold this notebook like an advanced new camera The panorama makes me some kind of past-master Gawking at the pasture as I pen this, it hails The Howitzer in the garden of my (mind) It isn't always so reliable Earthworm nimrod preaching about survival And the orchestral nature of chaos Lurking in the numbers Burping penumbra How gracefully he fidgets with the ephemeral A peon wrote this with the stalk of A peony and a collar of primitive thud Posing by a bust of Pericles eating fudge Sun officiating, dugoobie fashion Seen his hands fasten 'round a ruby hilt of that old, rusty scimitar Speaking time-tested code to who the other rhythm wizards are God bless the soul of whoever you think you are God bless the soul of whoever you think you are God bless the soul of whoever you thought you was 'Cause it 'Cause it might not be no next (time) 'Cause it might not be no next (time)