How the Hidden Paw ran the Whisk(e)y Hipsters off the Stage
excerpt from a work in progress

[the Day the Music Died] How the
HIDDEN PAW ran the WHISK(E)Y HIPSTERS off the stage
to keep it up to peak performance, as always
as never perfect
well, the Whiskey Hipsters were there first, fresh from the Man-Cave, bearded, one or two were even kilted; they hopped up and who on a banjo or mandolin acoustic kind of bluegrassy rendition of "Under Pressure;" they proceeded like Vikings hardheartedly into their bearded hipster jam, workin out the twang in the postmodern bourbon-boom
some of them were Name-Brand seekers, others true connoisseurs
(Beard Oil) a Snake Brand
Victory over TERRITORY
singing over taking shots of whiskey and rye
whoa whoa whoa, but wait a minute we say, we the Whiskey Hipsters, known as the Post Load Fatigue: the CHILLAX band of the burgher’s gutter stage, fresh from the suburbs
our jadedness has transcended the middle classes, if you stupid kids even know what that means. In any case,
this is our turf, we play here, and if we don’t get it back we’re sure to play DIRTY/
the Hidden Paw responded to their territorial toughs:
hey misters hey hey, we’re just kids, why you gotta pick on us kids for
but hey \
if ur gonna be mean about it anywayz [this isn’t your territory]
we mark our TERRITORY: Hidden Pawz in graffiti
this is our turf, like yo
Performance Platform
a thousand imaginary spectators and watchers thrilled to their spoof session
this was a snakeoil salespitch to the public,
all of these threats and niceties and amiable greetings were exchanged, they quickly agreed to a playoff in
music to save their mortal souls
in a splendor of metal sunshine a jam band drawn together, moving towards each other from opposite ends
in deaf dreams of stardom forever
But why should we Whisk[e]y Hipsters be afraid
of the goosedown on honkish fucking gosling pipsqueaks? but the play-off brought them together apart removing the distances at breakneck speeds
was anyone filming?
They themselves [the Pawz] started out rocking out and tapping feet to the Whiskey Hipsters’ headbanging pastiche tempered by bluegrass and going all helterskelter on their hands and knees/ whether southern or northern
But this was THEIR territory—Paw Turf Primordial—and they’d peed on its walls too many times not to call it their own or brand their weeping wall PAWZ TURF;
besides, more than One could made a Medley
The Day the Hidden Paw Ran the Whiskey Hipsters off the stage/
wearing their sunglasses night and day
they [the Paw]
after a pause that lasted maybe a half of a minute
took position opposite/across
got out their jang-bangers cans and pots and pans and positioned them
then They [the Pawz] created elaborate, deafening rhythms on their percussion and strange harmonics in their wailing, which some critics have likened to the drum circles and precocious polyphony of the “Pygmys” of the Congo/
--We play harder, boys, these fuzzless weasels can’t outplay the W.H./ it’ll take more than a roundel of tiny undropped limpdicks in perpetual fallout to not even old enough to drink Anything That’ll Put Hair on Your Chest in front of us. We can defeat these junkyard dogs and their tin!
The band tried valiantly to persevere,
but, struck by a series of shrill screeches and ululations in piercing tiers of brat shriek:
the startling sound-blast overlapped the Whiskey-Hipsters’ progressive Bluegrass endeavors,
and true CACOPHANY was the climax of this jam session event
—Damned kids, said the Whiskey Hipsters, packing up their things and skulking off swearing vengeance one day.
That was the day
that they say
the music died...
(and we would have won the world if it weren’t for those stupid kids...so what if we’re from the banlieu and not inner-towners)
those damn kids
who began to caterwaul baroque polychoral hymns at them like banshees
the WH's went off to seek paddocks new of plenty, nursing the bourbon booboo in their glencairn tulips,
practically stumbling by now
and slurring their speech
About the Creator
Rob Angeli
sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt
There are tears of things, and mortal objects touch the mind.
-Virgil Aeneid I.462
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