“My” Favourite Things

“My” Favourite Things

By

Sauvik von Chakraverti

Warm rain in bright sunshine,

A huge spliff, of course,

Holy Smoke blowin’

Cold beers for the thirst,

Books, reggae music,

They provide me much zing,

These are quite truly,

MY favourite things.

So when the blues strike!

When the cops ring!

Or when friends fall out.

I simply reach for MY favourite things,

And then I soon feel,

So GOOD!

Sweet, pleasant weather,

As by the coast,

Strolling down beaches,

Without too much clothes,

Smoking huge spliffs,

Sipping beers, of course,

These are the pleasures,

I extol in MY verse.

'Coz when the blues strike!

When cops ring!

Or when friends fall out.

I simply reach for MY favourite things,

And then I soon feel,

So GOOD!

I never ever cared too much for the money,

Never chased after girls,

Rarely do I hit hard liquors,

And it ain't no secret I love smokin' grass,

Good books and good music,

A "Good Buzz" in MY head,

If you think I need:
- "medical treatment"
- "re-arrangement"
- or "complete abstinence" (UGH!)

Fuck off from my face.

'Coz when the blues strike!

Or when cops ring!

When friends fall out.

I simply reach for MY favourite things…

While you go get drunk!

Get laid!

Crash your car!

Or even worse!

Like fucking your liver,
Like getting the clap,
Like smashing your skull,
Big fuck-ups like that.

 While Grateful Dead play,
With the volume real loud,
So the whole world can tell,
One dickhead has splat,
Directly to Hell,
Never coming back.

Feel free to do,

All these stupid things,
With all your "errant ways."

What I ask of you,

And your ilk,
Is... 

To be left well alone.

 Both "well," and "alone."

Well alone.

Yes, alone.

Alone.

ALONE!

GET IT, ASSHOLE?

(To be sung to the same tune as the one from the musical inspired by the von Trapps of Salzburg, Austria; but the very fact that the lyrics differ so widely only serves to prove the theoretical validity of the Viennese economist Carl Menger’s original insight of 1871 that “value is subjective,” hence the successful “pursuit of happiness,” for each and every Individual, requires Liberty to reign; that One supposedly Omniscient Mind, as with the Omnipotent State, or its Omnipotent Legislature, must never be allowed to decide what constitutes “happiness” for each and every Individual, who has a mind of his own, with its own, very "subjective" idea as to where happiness may be found. Omnipotent Government is nothing but TYRANNY, anyway)