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A tribute to playwright Susan Lori Parks' 365 Days 365 Plays, beginning January 1, 2008 iLL-Literacy presents 366 (cuz it's leap year!)

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Day 168: Ruby- Beam Me Up

Soooo...I'm writings galore lately. Here's a new song in progress that I started in Chicago, then dabbled in today and yesterday...iLL-literates, if you have any ideas, holla

This is Captain Ruby Bright 3 Zillion of spacecraft 1914ZX0ILL. Planet, do you read me? I am preparing for emergency takeoff, do you read? Planet Earth is destructive beyond repair- I must evacuate immediately. Mothership connect. What is the asteroid prognosis? Requesting assistance, over. Beam me up, I repeat, beam me up now!

Put me aboard on the spaceship
Beam me up,
Beam me up
Let the spacecraft rip
The sky is falling
No time for stalling
Get me out of here quick

Shake em up
Shake em up
The walls- a crumbling down
Shake em up
Shake em up
Fire wanna swallow the town
Maybe the tides gone angry
Wanna make em all drown


So beam me up
Beam me up
Beam me up now
Take me away
Before this joint blows down
Take me away
After I say peace to Oak-town


Somebody fill up the barrel
Cock the gun
They cracked the sky open
Someones stole the sun
Say me a prayer
Cause theres nowhere to run
I’ll close my eyes here
Wake me when the war is done
I dont know what’s going on
But get me outta here
The horizon wants to bleed forgiveness
But the sun is missing

Shake em up
Shake em up
The walls- a crumbling down
Shake em up
Shake em up
Fire wanna swallow the town
Maybe the tide’s gone angry
Wanna make em all drown

3 Comments:

Blogger Natalie said...

Hey this is a really great piece Ruby.

*Wake me up when the war is done...

Yes, please.

If you ever have the time, read my It's Sunday blog and give me feedback please. Thank you =]

July 7, 2008 11:01 PM

 
Blogger Ace said...

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July 8, 2008 10:29 PM

 
Blogger Ace said...

I wanna wish upon stars
but the skys just full of rhinestones
Not enough fingers to hold onto forever.
so beam me up,
to a world made up of glass
where prisms create a light in the dark twinkle of man

July 8, 2008 10:44 PM

 

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