RANDOM RENEGADE RENGA   

Written by Taylor Mignon and Yuri Kageyama

In Tokyo Spring 2020 as the World trembles in face of the Pandemic but Poets believe in the Power of the Word   

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Santana muzak Oye Como Va

Make us yearn for Devo lounge

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Digging Mi Ritmo in our Minyo village

Enya to tto Enya to tto Tito Puente

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 On the black sugar cane field a hurricane

 saved by voices: Ne Nezu & Yuricane

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 He came to her room, said little then went on

 To kill himself; jisatsu nante zurui (自殺なんてズルイ) So selfish so selfish

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彼は誰？何と言うてました？なんで自殺したんだろう。「質問祭り」

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The Poet with The Questions

 Taylor Mignon Taylor Mignon? Taylor Mignon!

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Kageyama encapsulates tortoise mountain, Turtle Island & Yaponesia cornucopia

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Taylor is Razor Music entwined, David Bowie James Brown

Red Hot Chili Peppers George Clinton the Parliament-Funkadelic

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Peter Tosh dangerous, yes to DB, P-Funk, JB —pass on Chili—am more Epic

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Epic Poet Taylor screaming Eternal Tokyo  

Ephemeral this world this thought this poem

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My Name Is Rio skips in this stuck lift, Duran Duran sand dance

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The scream of poetry that pierces Tokyo

Hear him scream

(notes for Taylor reading: screams loud and long)

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The funkqueen of poesie that grooves Tokyo

(Hear her riff, adlib or skat)

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From funk fusion to depa-chika to Icarus galaxy to Joni Mitchell and back,

Taylor and Yuri are done but only for now