Analysis of Hastings shave and a haircut



[choppy breathy with 1950's rock of notes A D E]
On Atlas' shoulders – romance
Mushrooms - wild - flashing eyes
Head tied up in kNots – spinning
RockNRoll Never Dies –

SIGHS…
[breathy “SIGHS” with PERCUSSION)

Spiritual communion
Climbing up to balcony
Cool lips half a recital
Till hot choreography
Steams out insecurities
Requesting to stay over

So, what would be wrong with that?

No Sunset phenomenom
Casts anchor off crushed island
Volcano checked its choking
Mired on Mimi's mimosa

Mother Hubbard won't let you
Have your cake and eat it too
That cookie crumbled against
The Count of Monte Christo

Making out in memory
That mind's journey full of lies
Turned off heat under the hood
Turned its back on shooting stars
Fire starter, tender, plain
But faltered sparks dampened quick.

Hair
End - Now – what might have been
Navigation won't fly

Reality “A New Pace”
Even comics would envy
Until calmed by chamomile.
Some surprise – persistent doubts
Stoke Green Dragon's rising will
To melt ice maker's heart

Then do – give me more of that lip
Lounging longing lunging kiss

Sleepless Saturday duels
Fixation ferments freedom
One aching foot laced so tight
The other foot kept asleep
Until another shoe drops
And he sweeps her off her feet

Not too late but overdue
Ant saints are not marching in
As together we take off
Franc-ly - swirling On The Lake

Distant river chandeliers
Scratch the fringes of romance
Coax and cajole rejoinders
Soon succumb to soft caress
Slip sliding away softened
Comforter of a conscience

[Electric guitar here starts acid-rock with heavy fast E minor chords]
Kataphatic goals can go
Check pending criteria
Apophatic phantasms
Ready for heart's void chamber
Clouds hold hands wetting shaved lips
Candor backlights romance kiss
Hair whisks away with fresh breaths
Strobing the turnaround point

HASTINGS SHAVE AND A HAIRCUT © 1 July 2009 MistyRose ™
This was performed (not sung - but with music chords for line emphasis points) at a gig at Hastings Music Store in Bartlesville OK in 2009.


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Poetic Form
Metre 101011111011 1101001 101101 1110110 1101 1 1011010 1000010 1011100 1110010 110100 110100 0101110 1111111 111 1101110 0101110 1110010 1010111 1110111 1101001 0111010 1010100 1110111 1111001 1111101 1010101 1101101 1 111111 101011 10011 1010110 01111 1010101 1110101 111101 11111111 1010101 1010010 0100110 1101111 0101101 0101011 0110101 1111101 1111100 1010111 1110101 101001 1010101 10011 1011101 1100110 1001010 010011110111011101 1111 1100100 11 1011110 1111011 101011 1101111 10101 10100111 11011111101111001101110101010110
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,997
Words 344
Sentences 6
Stanzas 15
Stanza Lengths 5, 2, 6, 1, 4, 4, 6, 3, 6, 2, 6, 4, 6, 9, 2
Lines Amount 66
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 109
Words per stanza (avg) 23
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Submitted on August 26, 2014

Modified on March 05, 2023

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