Meteoric Rhetoric (Space Suite)

Title art by Tony Wright

Listen to Meteoric Rhetoric by Richard Charles Stevens (Space Suite)

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I’m the man who fell to earth
A gentleman
For what it’s worth
I have a heart
Which halfway hurts
Depending where the path may turn
.
I’m the man who fell to earth
A gentleman
For what it’s worth
I have a heart
Which halfway hurts
Depending where the path may turn
.
I’m the man who fell to earth
(I’m the man who feel to earth)
A gentleman
For what it’s worth
(A gentleman
For what it’s worth)
I have a heart
Which halfway hurts
(I have a heart
Which halfway hurts)
Depending where the path may turn
(Depending where the path may turn)
.
For all my scars
I live and learn
(For all my scars
I live and learn)
Forgiven when my vision blurs
(Forgiven when my vision blurs)
Could never be ambivalent
(Could never be ambivalent)
When firing on all cylinders
(When firing on all cylinders)
.
Unfrivolous with words
For they are given us to verse the sink or swim in us preferred
When life embitters us recurred
Beginningless
Unending
Thus precipitous
Ascending
I swear blind
I’m not pretending
Not a single word left pending
I’m the man who fell to earth
This unplanned curse
Returned as blessing
Undeterred by second guessing
Where the pathway turns
Have a heart
Which halfway hurts
Yet ever convalescing
For when my skin restricts zen
I am swift then to undress it
.
For all my scars
I live and learn
For all my scars
I live and learn
For all my scars
I live and learn
(I live and learn)
.
I’m the man who fell to earth
A gentleman
For what it’s worth
I have a heart
Which halfway hurts
Depending where the path may turn
.
Depending where the path may turn
Depending where the path may turn
For all my scars
I live and learn
Depending where the path may turn
.
I’m the man who fell to earth
A gentleman
For what it’s worth
I have a heart
Which halfway hurts
Depending where the path may turn
.
Blessèd be necessity to better glean identity
Brave each wild presented me
To rise up exponentially
Take life to extremity
Then one day die contentedly
Trust that I will fly again eventually
Either way
Shall e’er remain
The gentleman
My testament to find some kind of measurement for entropy
Rely on what makes sense to me
The transference of energy
That prized as extrasensory
Recyclable accessory
Per ardua ad astra
That is Latin for the stars reached through adversity
(For all my scars
I live and learn)
(Stars reached through adversity)
.
For all of my perversity
Beginningless
Unending
For eternity
.
For all of my perversity
Beginningless
Unending
For eternity
.
Firing on all cylinders
(For eternity)
Firing on all cylinders
(For eternity)
Firing on all cylinders
.
For all of my perversity
Beginningless
Unending
For eternity
.
I’m the man who fell to earth
(I’m the man who fell to earth)
Just visiting
For what it’s worth
(I’m the man who fell to earth)
I see things dearly when they blur
(I’m the man who fell to earth)
Envisioning clear sign recurred
(I’m the man who fell to earth)
I have a heart
Which halfway hurts
(I’m the man who fell to earth)
Depending where the pathway turns
(I’m the man who fell to earth)
If I stay
I may well die
But then I may as well still try
(If I stay
I may well die
But then I may as well still try)
Live and learn while I’m alive
Before returning to the sky
(Live and learn while I’m alive
Before returning to the sky)
Unfrivolous with words
For they are given us to verse upon free flight
(Given us to verse upon free flight)
.
Forgive me my perversity
Beginningless
Unending
Thus precipitous
Ascending
And transferrably
I’m just a man who fell to earth
For what it’s worth
One version of eternity
(For what it’s worth
One version of eternity)
.
Unfrivolous with words
For they are given us to verse the sink or swim in us preferred
When life embitters us recurred
Beginningless
Unending
Thus precipitous
Ascending
I swear blind
I’m not pretending
Not a single word left pending
.
Unfrivolous with words
For they are given us to verse the sink or swim in us preferred
When life embitters us recurred
Beginningless
Unending
Thus beginningless
Unending
Thus beginningless
Unending
Thus precipitous
Ascending
(Ascending)
.