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Some Guy Downtown

from Something Wicken This Way Comes by Scott Wicken

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... a spoken word piece...

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Some Guy Downtown

Some guy downtown walks past,
jingling, jangling,
scuffing worn-down
cowboy boot heels
against cement
with each step.

With bells ‘round his neck
and a ring through his nose,
a cacophony of noise
wherever he goes,

shakin’ his skinny white butt
in his baggedy-assed,
hole-in-the-knee jeans,
bobbing his floppy muppet head
and flapping his arms and hands
against his thighs and sides
to some goofy internal rhythm
only he can hear.

Oh! His so-neatly-trimmed van dyke!
Oh! His so-black, so-hepcat sunglasses!

Looking like the lead tenor sax player
in the Sally-Ann band, man,
moving a losing out-of-tune jive
like some old hippie whole-lotta-love
Volkswagen van
backfiring
and farting up the sidewalk,
a big old glad-to-be-a-madman grin
a jackhammer couldn’t crack
smeared across his face.

And I can hear him
just a-chuckling to himself,
clucking his tongue
against the back of his teeth
like he just ate some big old shit sandwich
and doesn’t want you to know
he loved it.

Oh, jolly, jolly, jolly, man...
like the world isn’t at war,
like the human race
isn’t committing suicide,
like the air isn’t poisoned,
like the water isn’t poisoned,
like love, itself, is not poisoned...
oblivious.

I watch the damn fool walk into 2 lanes
of high density traffic
against the flashing
don’t walk,
don’t walk,
don’t walk sign...

a hero,
a god-be-damned
hero.

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from Something Wicken This Way Comes, released January 1, 1995
Wicken: Vocals
Chris Smith: Electric Guitar

Written by Scott Wicken. Engineered by Dave Mockford. Produced by Dave Mockford and Scott Wicken. Executive Producer Bryan Becker.

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Scott Wicken Waterloo, Ontario

Scott Wicken is a singer/songwriter/musician/spoken word artist/poet based in Waterloo, Ontario. He's been part of the artistic/musical communities in Vancouver, Yellowknife, Edmonton and has performed in bars, cafes, art galleries and festivals across Canada. His work pays special attention to the lyric. Currently, he is a member of City'N'Eastern, an acoustic trio of original music. ... more

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