For the past few weeks, I was having THE TIME OF MY LIFE because I DID NOT BUY INTO the LOCKDOWN TING ... so I was out there three to four times a day thoroughly enjoying the ABSENCE of HEAVY TRAFFIC (what a RELIEF). But today when I went out THE TRAFFIC picked up considerably. And since I have been a lifelong student of FREUDIAN FREE ASSOCIATION (my own BASTARDIZED VERSION of HIS THEORY) ... I concluded that THE LOCKDOWN IS OVER in the BAY AREA ... and maybe the REST OF THE COUNTRY.
During the LOCKDOWN, I mockingly put up THIS CALYPSO. And I ended up listening to it many times during the duration ... but I have to admit that despite the CRUDITY OF THE MESSAGE -- it is BRILLIANTLY STRUCTURED.
I eh in THE PAN TING -- especially with all the NONSENSE PAN MUSIC that was featured during THESE COVID TIMES. But CALYPSO IS MY CULTURE.
And, maybe (just maybe) CALLALOO TONIC saved me from being DEVOURED by the CHINESE CORONA VIRUS ... all dem BIG TIME SCIENTISTS still GUESSING ... so I am taking some LIBERTIES TOMORROW (before the TRAFFIC BUILD BACK UP) and ah going and buy ALL MEH CALLALOO INGREDIENTS and make ah BIG POT and eat it up with some CASSAVA and PLANTAIN and AVOCADO and DUNGENESS CRAB and EDDOES ... while I still wait (having survived the VIRUS) for ONE PIECE of GLOBAL PAN MUSIC from ONE TRINIDADIAN PAN MUSICIAN to thrill to my soul "then I can die" (a translated line from SAMBA DE ORFEU in the quotation marks) with ONE DECENT PIECE OF GLOBAL PAN MUSIC.
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