What Went Wrong?

( a few small challenging bombs )

No Backlash Periods what so ever ... No Sellout Accusations surprisingly ... No Commercial Failures requiring Desperate Reinvention ... No Controversial Statements that Alienated our Loved Ones or Audiences ... thankfully No Extreme Substance Abuse Realities ... No Derailing Scandal ... No Creative Block or Drought forcing Hiatus ... No Generational Irrelevance requiring a strong comeback ... No Artistic Compromises Showing and Haunting our Legacy Journey ... the record came back almost clean ... Just ... a few Small Challenging Bombs ... leading to Noticeable Commercial Diminishment ...

the kind that rearranges the kitchen without making a sound ...

our Cultural Landscapes were never Interrogated ... Wrong IS also part of our story ... the False Rises and Falls ... Breakthroughs and Backlashes ... Peaks and Valleys ... Mother Deaths ... Transition Struggles ... Identity Medical Resistance ... Critical Establishment Complexities ... Too Much Loss ... and then the small ones that somehow weigh more ... Not to mention the Existential Crisis of Café Closures in our neighborhood ... What went wrong? ... Life is Beautiful and a Harsh Catastrophe ... Thank God the Insomniacs in our community are still finding time to have lots of fun ... That's the anomaly ... We will use all of it well