Kevin's Records Ended Up At The Goodwill Store

Every Time I Look At A Record 

& I See The Previous Owners Name On It

I Try To Picture The Person

& Wonder What Where They Thinking 

When They Bought The Record

Stereo Side 1

The World & Fire

Get On Out & Party

With Koo The G Ladies

Identify Yourself

& Sing A Happy Song

Sun Goddess

While You Jungle Strut

Hot Dawgit

Side 2

1979

Lady Put Your Red Shoe 

Back On  

Do You Know How

Kevin's Records Ended Up At The Goodwill Store

Solomon,A Camera & A Record Store

These Are Pictures My Son Snapped Up

Of One Of Our Numerous Trips To The 

Local Record Store

He's Been Around Music 

Before He Was Even Born

I Remember Handing Him An Obie Trice 12in Record

When He Was Able To Sit Up By Himself

& The First Thing He Did Was Stick It In His Mouth

On This Day 

Like Six Months Ago

I Gave Him The Camera

& Said  Him To Take Pictures Of Whatever

He Wanted To Take Pictures Of

I Was Curious To See

What He Was Gonna 

Capture

These Are Pictures My Son Snapped Up

Of A Trip 

To The Local Record Store

He Currently Loves Michael Jackson

The Hip Hop

Some Rock n Roll

As Long As It Isn't Too Loud

& Dances To The Latin Grooves

He Goes By The Name

DJ Sollie Sol The Super Sonic Samurai 

Or By Solomon

But Whatever His Name Is

He Often Brings A Smile To My Face

& I Will Love Him Unconditionally 

That Funky Festival In The City They Call Long Beach

#Larry & I Pulled Into The Parking Garage
At About Noon
Paid The Attendant Ten Bucks
& Drove Up To The Second Level

The Air Conditioning Was Blarin'
We Smoked A Blunt
Checked Our Phones For Texts
Gathered Our Stuff
& Shot Out Into The Heat
I Had An Umbrella But It Really Didn't Help Much

We Arrived At The First DJ Booth
DJ Antwone From The Ghettoblaster & Mean Mr.Mustard
Were Getting Ready To Start It Up

Gazoo Shuffled Us Off To The Main Stage
Where I Proceeded To Make Myself At Home
I Recieved A Gold Wrist Band Which Allowed Me
Basically Total Access To Back Stage

I Sat Under The Tent That Provided Shade
& Just Watched The People
Surprised That After An Hour Of Smokin' A Blunt
& Being In The Sun That I Was Still Stoned

This Is What Comes To Mind If Someone Asks
Sum Up The Funk Fest..

The Heat
DJ Gazoo Going From One DJ Booth To Another
With A Clip Board (Non Stop)
DJ Antowne Cutting Up A Shirt To Make A Slipmat
People Asking #Larry Where He Got The Shirt He Was Wearing
DJ Joelskee Showin' Up & Setting Up
Ivan Nevelle's Dumpstaphunk Did An Awesome Cover Of David Bowie's "Fame"
Gallons Of Ice Cold Water That I Drank
Being A Foot Away From Dennis Coffey While He Sat In During A Cover Of
The Temptations "Papa Was A Rollin' Stone"
With Monophonics
Who Killed It Themselves
Those Cats Got Soul.!
The Brides Of Funkenstein's Guitarist Looked Like A Female Version Of Bootsy Collins
The Alley Way Between The Main Stage & The Other Stage
& How There Was This Cool Breeze Blowin Thru It
& We Chilled In The Cut Before Heading
To The Other DJ Booth
Where Danny Holloway Was Layin' Down The Vibes With 45's
Then Ralph M Took Over

By This Time I Was Completly Exhausted
Sitting On A Silver Case
My Eyes Began To Get Heavy
So Heavy I Was In That
My Head Is Falling Back
Cause My Body Wanted To Go To Sleep
& DJ Sloe Poke & Dennis Coffey
Where To Get On
But We Bounced
Jumped In To The Truck
Hit The A/C
Headed Home

Only To Wake Up
Pulling Off
At The Manchester Exit
& Seeing The Big Ol' Randy's Donut
& Thinkin'
Damn I Had A Looong Ass Day
But I Had A Blast At The Funky Festival
In The City They Call Long Beach.!

How Do You Say Mixtape In Thai.?

For Some Reason

I Stopped Eating Thai Food

And Doodling

Sometimes I'll Tell Myself It's Cause

I'm So Busy

But It Isn't Really That

It's That Indica Strain

This Heatwave & Not Having Enough

Money To Pay For Thai Food

I'd Much Rather Spend My Time

Stoned

And Spending 

Money On Records Instead

*Check Out This Thai Mix Tape I Found On Soundcloud.!

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