{"id":16524,"date":"2017-09-17T18:49:18","date_gmt":"2017-09-17T18:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/?p=16524"},"modified":"2017-09-19T18:53:16","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T18:53:16","slug":"life-island-times-strung-out-and-allergic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/life-island-times-strung-out-and-allergic\/","title":{"rendered":"Life & Island Times: Strung Out and Allergic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editor’s Note:<\/strong> Still strung out from an evening in the ER to start the weekend. Home and fine now, just…allergic to the the cure, perhaps. Marlow sums it up nicely in the wake of the temporal storms, and the more existential ones here in the Emerald City…We are not done with hurricanes this season, even if Jose seems to have lost focus and wandered north. Reminds me of someone i know….<\/p>\n

– Vic<\/p>\n

Strung Out and Allergic<\/p>\n

\"091717-1LIT\"
\nThe famous Southernmost buoy in Key West shows Hurricane Irma damage (courtesy Gwen Filosa).<\/p>\n

Key Westers will start returning to their island homes on Sunday September 17 2017. Power, water,
\ncommunications and sewer service remain spotty. Returninng residents were requested to bring
\nsupplies for several days subsistence and warned that conditions will difficult.<\/p>\n

Author’s note: I was listening to the car radio while running Hurricane Irma errands Tuesday before the storm struck the Florida Keys, when a thirty plus year old pop song came blaring forth. Addicted to Love became a raging hit in no small part due to the music video that rocketed it to the top of the charts. It memorably had slicked down, mannequin-appearing models who mimed playing a rock band’s instruments. This song’s hypnotic groove snarkily reminded me of today’s strung out politician-hypnotists and their subjects who are or should be allergic to their groove.<\/p>\n

\"091717-2LIT\"
\nWe are the allergic ones<\/p>\n

Their lights are on, but they’re not home
\nWere their minds ever their own
\nTheir hearts don’t quake, their voices don’t shake
\nOne more talking point, they think, is what it’s gonna take<\/p>\n

We can’t sleep, we can’t eat
\nThere’s no doubt, the crap we’re in is deep
\nSome folks are hungry, others can hardly breathe
\nMore than just posturing and schmoozing is what we need<\/p>\n

They like to think that we don’t see their truthy stuff
\nThey ‘re so full of it when they tell us they’ve given us more than enough
\nWhen are we gonna face it, they’re strung out on their own fluff<\/p>\n

\"091717-3LIT\"
\nScreen shot from the Addicted to Love music video<\/p>\n

We can see the signs, but they can’t read
\nOur suffering’s at a different speed
\nOur hearts’re breaking in double time
\nThey blow us kisses, thinking we’ll be theirs, damn their one track minds<\/p>\n

They can’t be saved
\nAdulation is all they crave
\nIf there’re scraps they left for us
\nThey never watch when we suffer and cuss<\/p>\n

We like to think that we’re immune to their truthy fluff
\nIt’s closer to the truth to say we can’t get enough
\nSooner or later we’re gonna have to face it, we’re allergic to their stuff<\/p>\n

Might as well face it, we’re allergic to their stuff
\nMight as well face it, they’re strung out on their own fluff
\nMight as well face it, we’re allergic to their stuff
\nMight as well face it, they’re strung out to their own fluff
\nMight as well face it, we’re allergic to their stuff<\/p>\n

Their lights are on, but they’re not home
\nTheir minds are plainly not their own
\nTheir hearts don’t quake, their voices don’t shake
\nOne more talking point, they think, is what it’s gonna take<\/p>\n

We like to think that we’re immune to their truthy fluff
\nIt’s closer to the truth to say we can’t get enough
\nSooner or later we’re gonna have to face it, we’re allergic to their stuff<\/p>\n

Might as well face it, we’re allergic to their stuff
\nMight as well face it, they’re strung out on their own fluff
\nMight as well face it, we’re allergic to their stuff
\nMight as well face it, they’re strung out to their own fluff
\nMight as well face it, we’re allergic to their stuff<\/p>\n

\"091717-4LIT\"
\nStrung out Capitol city addicts shout out “Yo!” to their subjects<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2017 From My Isle Seat\/Robert Palmer
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