Category Archives: Cooper Culture

It’s all about me.

Another RIP

It always frigh­tens me to see men youn­ger than my father falling like flies.
I for­got who Alex Chil­ton was, my father remin­ded me in an email.
The world remem­bers most fondly Big Star , so I’ll post the well known, but less heral­ded  —  not as cool piece, by the Box Tops.

RIP
Peace

Kiss Me Clean

kiss me clean
no,
don’t lick
kiss me clean
yes,
that’s it

lick me clean
no,
don’t kiss
lick me clean
yes,
that’s it

canapés and cocktails

Over canapés and cock­tails,
in fashio­na­ble cock­tail attire
after paying ten bucks for valet par­king
it’s about Dar­fur dar­ling
the incon­gruity of this esca­pes some
life is not just
I am not estran­ged from that fact

And I would rather be anywhere else
But here today

PEACE

Someday I’ll Wish Upon a Star on Old School Friday

The OSF theme this week is This Is My “Moti­va­tion”.
Do songs moti­vate? Do they ins­pire? Of course they do. I could list inspirational/motivational songs until this blog burst, and cybers­pace with it. For expe­diency I’ll go with the no-brainer. The num­ber one song on the Song of the Cen­tury List  —  a list I was in