1. *
ORIGINAL POETRY BY DUNCAN HAMMITT
*Awesome in this case means good to an extent.

2. The Classics
Ah, the classics. Lou Reed and the Stones
All ready to listen to, waiting on hold
The turntable spins, and I hear the sounds
Of Gilmour and Dylan, playing a-loud
The Beatles, the Who, and Frank Zappa too?
Ah, the classics. Lou Reed and the Stones

3. Time
Time can overcome you
Materials get in the way
Isn’t it hard when you discover that
It’s too late for you today
The world is bigger
Others have more
Trying to change it
Is an impossible chore
Can you do it?
Can you change it?
Or will time win once more?
It isn’t that great
When you’re all done for

4. Journey through the Usual
I walk through the field of roses made from
pearls
Growing out of plastic soil
Into the sea of flames
On a silver boat
I stop at the bar
And duck for cover from a dive bomb
I see the usual as uncharted territory.

5. Sounds
The sounds I’ve heard are like none other
The sounds couldn’t be from anywhere else
These sounds from such a serendipitous experience
Detoured from my usual spot, across the aisle I went
I heard a great sound
The 1967 Gibson Les Paul Standard VOS through a Fender
vacuum tube amp
So clean, so crisp, this sound
Of the godly guitar through the angelic amp

6. Now I See
I didn’t like what I heard
So I quit, and I didn’t want to learn.
But now I heard how great it is.
So new, so more
I now listen to jazz.

7. Ode to Nature
Oh look around, at the wonderful, wonderful, rainforest.
Leaves and leaves and sticks and sticks all over.
Green is so vibrant and nice that I think of it as the best.
Flowers, flowers, showers, flies and spiders.
Animals, animals, animals, traveling East to West.
Stomping, stomping, ants are dead now for sure.
Trees and leaves, leaves and sticks, sticks and dirt, minerals of
the best.
Rocks and water, idle, still and so pure.
Look at the nature, so wonderful, wonderful, all the best.
Nice and fresh and new and old and greatest!