about wonder

sometime in december of 1969
couple days either side of my 18th birthday
i was headed south on i57 with the vestige of the night before dripping from my synapses
one particular drip fired the notion
that
when we die
they stick us in a juke box
then
according to our karma
we are popular moving on quickly
or not
it took just shy a half a century for me
to
tell the tale
that
conceived these tunes of wonder
opening with the battle hymn of the legendary legionnaires of leisure
culminating with the self induced emancipation of one vunder van voosehausen