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Wearing a baseball cap

reading: 

Delaware Valley Bluegrass Festival

and sporting a jacket tainted

with little specks of paint

and I must look like

a big fat redneck hick

with a gun rack hanging

in the back of my pick-up

but then I start buying 

CDs by Lee “Scratch”Perry

and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

and the onlooking folks

start to get confused

Just who the fuck

is this guy supposed to be?

Well, mysteries abound in life

and not every cliché

is only what it seems

to be on the surface.

Perhaps, enigma is

the word some are seeking

Paradox works for me

but I ain’t keen on oxymoron

I’m just seeking out

a few thrills and spills

as I pass through life

I ain’t a Hindu mystic

or Zen Buddhist whatever

not even a Christian or Jew

just a man with shaken

but unbroken faith

and it may be paralleled

in plenty of cities and cultures

around the planet

It’s just what I have

and what I’ve been accursed

to pursue to the grave.

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