After they broke up, he moved to the city. He stumbled into a great job, found a little walkup in a decent neighborhood. Others struggled to make it in the city but everything fell into place for him. And he was thankful for that, because he knew he couldn’t take the chance of running into […]
I wrote this riding my motorcycle home one lunch hour in 1980. Compton to the southern tip of Long Beach in 12 minutes. It wasn’t something I did every day but, when you work in a big warehouse in Compton and you ride the bus 3 hours a day when it rains… sometimes it’s almost […]
Kingdom of Fools was one of the first songs I posted last September at the beginning of A Year of Songs. I posted a new version not quite two weeks ago. It was a rush job. In more ways than one. The tempo was, shall we say, aggressive. My dissatisfaction with it must have been […]
There can only be one winner. It’s a zero zum game. The competition is fierce. Unexpected hardships are faced by all. Most will lose everything and be forgotten. Warriors will fall. Brave champions will lie in defeat. Some will face infamy and shame. But only one will emerge victorious. In the Kingdom of Fools… only […]