Twenty Funky Things
A Retrospective

1. Funky is an unwashed armpit
2. Funky is the blues with an upbeat
3. Funky is brightly colored threads
4. Funky is an over stuffed chair covered with an Navajo blanket
5. Funky is getting down to the rhythm of the beat
6. Funky town is Saturday night with strobe lights
7. Funky is the laid back feeling after making love
8. Funky is our body odors intermingled and shared
9. Funky is the bottom of the clothes hamper after wet was left too long to lie
10. Funky is that place between sick and well
11. Funky is dreadlocks, caftan shirts and painted beads
12. Funky is as Funky does
13. Funky is the 1960s bleeding into the 1970s
14. Funky is a jeweled roach clip, a leather headband and the peace sign painted on my jeans
15. Funky is those favorite jeans, too thread bare to be washed again
16. Funky is Janice Joplin’s voice singing “Me and Bobby McGee” at her gravely lowdown best
17. Funky is the inside of my car after a month long road trip
18. Funky is Otis Redding, Oscar Brown Jr. and Creedence Clearwater Revival.
19. Funky is a bad moon rising
20. Funky was and Funky is a song, a dance, a time, a place that I can’t get back to any more. I’ve lost my way to Funky.