A Coachella Poem

[mikey.golightly]

Coachella To Portland


O Desert Lord Muse! Under the April Skies
I felt you cry out “What’s My Name?!?” and
danced your Jungle Love across a grassy oasis,
I saw your chosen prophets in open shirts and
preacher robes, floating pigs above the
masses and dropping acid confetti from
a silent circling plane above infernal explosions,
I bathed in bass with your unwashed followers and
became a young lamb in your flock,
my rock and roll savior,
guitar-faced screams melting me into the
sands and the sunlight
where I surf the straight ray beam of hope
to the shooting star sky and shine
that love back down, lightning flashes
of hope, home in once-depressed
Portland, ready to blaze a fiery trail
into our bright future and
The Next American Dream!
In the desert my compatriots from
all the world’s oases gathered together
and cried out “Let’s rescue the
American Dream!”, “Let’s renew
The American Revolution!”
O Desert Sun! Let the seeds of this
New America scatter forth from the desert,
blown fast by trade winds of liberty,
spreading across this vast
New America,
watered with rock and roll, we will
sprout into the fruiting trees
of this, the next Greatest American
Generation,
and we will take back THE LOVE!
THE PEACE!
THE HOPE!
we’ll WIN the war by REFUSING TO FIGHT!
We’ll inherit the earth and you damn well
better believe we’re gonna want it this time,
this oasis of hope spreads with smiles
shared on springtime streets back home
and the smoldering sparks of Little Beirut
will explode into infernos once again
with my little kiss of the hot desert wind.

[KatieLyn]

I thought this was going to be super lame, but not bad man, not bad.

[Kali27]

word...

[algunz]

Nice. It really captured a mood that exists on the fields, although I can't say that Coachella wants me to go out and start a revolution. It makes me just want to be a better person. But, I guess that's all a part of changing the world one person at a time.

When did you write it?

[Skookumchuk]

well said

[thelastgreatman]

Without having read more than a couple lines:






Shut the fuck up.

[PassiveTheory]

I wanna hear some Randy poetry.