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all the world’s a stage
and all the people merely players
they have their entrances and their exits

AND THE JOKER IS WILD!

yeah, in the words of Shakespeare, . . .


The Joker Is Wild

all the world’s a stage
and all the people merely players
they have their entrances and their exits

AND THE JOKER IS WILD!

yeah, in the words of Shakespeare, . . .

all the world’s a stage
and all the men and women merely players
they have their exits and their entrances
and one man in his time plays many parts

AND THE JOKER IS WILD!

AND THE JOKER IS WILD!

AND THE JOKER IS WILD!


and no one is sure of the rules of the game

or what the game is



is it crazy eights? – are the eights also a bit wild?



nothing stays stable

nothing stays  fixed



lots of cards close to the chest

lots of chest thumping

lots of rumbling

tumbling

crashing of words

clashing of worlds

danger and death

love and care

lots of fear

and lots of I dare

I dare to care



AND THE JOKER IS WILD!

WILDER THAN WILD

WIDER AND WEIRDER THAN WILD



There’s no answer blowing in the wind

Not with so many wild cards



Outcomes are wanted

Outcomes are planned



But we all know that the best laid plans
      of mice and men
          oft gang aglee
often gang up on those who made them
often get garbled and mangled
          by wild cards and other tangles




AND THE JOKER IS WILD!



but what is the game?



I don’t know the rules

I know some people are clowns
some are fools
some are wizards
some wise, some wise fools
some ostriches head in the sand
some are frightened - many are frightened

no one understands

all the ins and outs of the game

nothing stays the same



Islam
the West
Obama
Merkle
debt
youtube
the net



your bet is as good as mine

but do you care to win

and what do you care to win

what would winning mean



and you

are you a wild card?

tame?

and who am I?

who are we?



one move - everything can change



in the words of Shakespeare,

all the world’s a stage
and all the men and women merely players
they have their exits and their entrances



AND THE JOKER IS WILD!

AND THE JOKER IS WILD!

AND THE JOKER . . .    IS WILD!

       
Elsa
October 15, 2012

words, copyright, ©, 2012, 2015, Elsa Schieder, all rights reserved
music found and music arrangement created, Mark Corwin, 2015
sound production, Mark Corwin, 2015






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AND THE JOKER IS WILD.
no one understands,
nothing stays the same,
and the joker is wild.

Wild Cards

so the joker is wild -
but not wilder than the players
in this political rap song,
this political rap poetry,
these hot political rapping words
that don't talk politics
but are the political outpourings
of the heart,
but are at the heart
of the politics of the heard


yeah, one wild card,
and then another,
and the joker is always wild,
but not wilder than living,
not wilder than life.

so the joker is wild,
the stakes are high,
and feelings run high,
the longing for freedom

in this passionate rap music,
wild rap poem,
political rap song.


Elsa
November 9, 2012




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