From the land of Yetis, will be smelled on high;
By children and innocents.
Leah’s portly doppelganger strides.
Yet the free shall resist,
While limeys frolic lifelessly.
How did the Kentucky recluse foresee the rise of an Icelandic singer two decades before her birth; child stardom, hair-do’s, and the fact that Americans would think her music was crap while Europeans pretended to get it.
From porta-johns and porta-lavs , rage chants and demands,
While kittens and Clinger hold captive their raisins.
By Cretes and Krauts alike,
This would seem odd, were it not for the kittens.
Could Tubbs experience the frenzy of holiday shopping before he ever entered a Walmart? Do “porta-lavs” indicate the state of American consumption; the “chants and demands” of a generation’s apathy and entitlement, as the helpless “kittens” and confused “Clinger” guard the few bits they can rescue from aggressors? Yet still, there is hope.
Sand, sun, sandals, thongs
Who wears them shall inherit the wind:
Stuck up shall be the spawn of Darrow.
Bill Bryan sits the fence eternal…
Written in the year 1982, did Tubbs envision an entertainment movement directed at mass inclusiveness? American Idol is produced almost entirely in the Los Angeles area (Sand, sun, sandals…). Whoever wins the competition will “inherit” a recording contract. “Darrow” has the same number of letters as Cowell. They each have only one “w” and one set of repeating letters. Yet, Scotty McCreary may never make his mark on the music industry.
The Beast shall pass in the wake of scabies.
Minstrels plummet in the nether regions.
Tap dancing is forbidden throughout the earth.
Try something new….
Is it possible that Tubbs knew of Oprah’s rise to mega-stardom only four years after her talk show began, passing the ratings of Phil Donahue and Maury Povich (scabies) in the same year that jazz great, Chet Baker, fell to his death from a second floor window in Amsterdam? And how did he know she couldn’t dance, and is addicted to dish soap?!?
