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The Meeting
In this place where your egg needs to meet your sperm
And the odds are you won't even make the term
Where the commodity meets the common good
The director shouts "Find me some wood!"
And the randy rubber meets the road
And the understudy meets the overload
And the modesty meets the self abuse
And the king believes that he can see his shoes
Doctor Jekyll meets Mr. Hyde
Where the end of the ride meets the other side
The darkest day meets the midnight sun
Where the ten thousand things meet the one

The flower bows down when it meets the weed
The vine climbs up just to find the greed
It's up and down if you wanna succeed
And if you wanna heal you better learn how to bleed
There's not a sign of cheating
When it comes time for the meeting

Will this place where the spirit meets the biz
Ever show me what it is?
Will what I dream meet what I know
When when I came in meets when I go?
As I watch the spinning penny turn
Can I open up? Will I ever learn?
Will I take my stance and do my dance
Where the evil meets the ignorance?
Will I leave my ignorance up to chance?
A spade's a spade no ambivalence
Will I grope in blind circumstance
Where insecurity meets the arrogance?
The drums will all be beating
We're all headed for the central square
They say the whole circle may be there
We got to keep traveling, moving on
Hoping that the night time will meet the dawn

Hoping that the happiness will meet the hurt
Or that we'll meet some prophet or some expert
Who'll show us why the active gotta go inert
Before the end of our road meets the dirt

The flower bows down when it meets the weed
The vine climbs up just to find the greed
It's up and down if you wanna succeed
And if you wanna heal you better learn how to bleed
The enemies are greeting
As the saving meets the deleting
As the beginning meets the completing
When it comes time for the meeting

So let the gold crusted diamond lie
Meet the greatest gift that money can not buy

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from Camped Out in the Big Bang, released June 1, 2014

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Richard Haxton Los Angeles, California

From the middle of Mississippi, served in Viet Nam in Thailand, lives 5,000 feet from the world's oldest freeway. Searches for transcendence - or something - where science meets the spirit. Never quit fighting the war for the groove!

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