How much money do you need right now? This is not a question of what you lost yesterday or what you'll earn tomorrow but what you need right now. What's happening now? How much time do you need now to get everything you haven't done, done? Do you know where you are right now? What did your teacher ask you when you were a kid in class before the class begin? Have you taken attendance lately?. And what time is it on Mars? Presently Space Echo, from the album Respect the Beard: Spoken Soul, is produced by Shinobi Evil Eye with words by Jabulani. This new -age and ancient exploration of the here and now...asks all these questions.
lyrics
Right now I’m thinking about thinking.
In this moment I am still and active.
She is all that is on my mind and she is here and gone….now.
I’m on the cusp, in this moment, of total destruction and one-hundred percent recovery.
I’m blocked as a snotty nose, also allergic to stagnation.
Right now is everything and nothing.
Thoughts are racing, ruminations are stuck at a red light.
There is no yesterday and no tomorrow.
Things now have no name, there’s no light in here…now darkness.
There is no justice and no injustice.
The immediacy is the fairest thing of all.
There’s nothing happening yet nothing is standing still, nothing held back, everything……moving.
I’d love to touch the horizon, I’d love to fall deep into the depths of the suffering I imagine…impale myself now on eternity.
Eternity…just a minute ago.
Infinite sub-atomic fractions, scream you don’t know shit….stars say you know everything….dust.
I imagine it and it scoops and scrapes, contorts and shapes, cooks and bakes… without expectation.
This is not what you think it is, it is in fact everything you thought it would be, everything you said it would be. Now.
I would add to that: expectations are illusory at most and probability at best. The unexpected is certain.
If you knew, would you go? And do you know, that knowing doesn’t make this now and doesn’t make the then be then either?
Everything is conscious and unconsciousness is nothing so watch matter and anti-matter do a tango to that.
Watch that stick, beat that snare, that rim, that shot that bee that bop, bounce that off the satellite, listen and hope…just be there.
Like I am…here, not deep, not shallow, not vast just the whole universe is all.
I am the one, just like you.
I’m born now, I died then…ain’t that groovy, put the quarter in the slot and ask yourself: who, now and what, now?
That’s instead of what, now? And you said what now?
It’s kind of like whose on first if you ponder the seconds, you’ll get that then.
Taste the dimension with each oxygen laced pull: photosynthetic in the dark of night.
You get it when you think about what the teacher asked of you when the teacher called your name…to be counted…you said…
Here.
Present.
And you were and are both?
credits
from RESPECT THE BEARD: SPOKEN SOUL,
released January 1, 2013
Production by Shinobi Evil Eye, Words and Vocals by Jabulani
Jabulani is also an award-winning journalist, broadcaster and writer who attended Journalism School at the University of
Missouri.
Currently he is the host of Central Standard, a general interest radio talk show on KCUR 89.3 FM, a super-regional National Public Radio member station based in Kansas City. The show reaches listeners in Missouri, Kansas, Iowa and Northern Arkansas....more
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