About this author: Diem Jones is a poet, musician and arts administrator living in Mountain View California. His own poetry can be found in Sufi Warrior, A Collection of Words (Juke Box Press) and on Spoken Song collections; Black Fish Jazz (Sufi Warrior Entertainment) and Equanimity: Rhythms of Freedom (Clear Vision Entertainment). As a renowned photographer, Jones authored #1 Bimini Road, a photo history of George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic in the 1970?s. Jones is the executive director of The Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation and director of the Voices Writers Workshops (at the University of San Francisco), a workshop focused on writers-of-color. His forthcoming project, Equanimity: Rhythms of Freedom will be released as a book and CD February 2006.

Done

by Diem Jones
January 2006

Get particular
Get particular

You,
Are number one!

I can?t tell blue from green,
Green from blue?.
but you, You know blue.
Proppin? yourself up on Monday?
Tomorrow is yesterday?s today
and you can?t fix the news.

Eeny meeny miney, where?s Moe?
Price of gas is too high
Theme for a new take on life?
Pump of the volume so you know your score
Know what time it is
Pump it, pump it, pump it
You wouldn?t wanna sell your fish to a fisherman, would you?

It?s a new

I can?t tell blue from green,
Green from blue
but you
You know blue.

Propped yourself up on all the Mondays in your calendar book
got walked by the dogs?
tomorrow is today?s yesterday and
You can?t fix the news.
Time for a new take on life
Pump up the volume so you know the score
Sell your fish to whomever you want to;
You?re the fisherman
What?s your bait?
Hook like and sinker baby
Eeny meeny, miney moe
Ha ha ha haaa

Know what time it is?
I can?t tell blue from green
Green from blue
But you,
You know the blues.

Last Monday, remember?
Pump up the volume so you know your own score
Know what time it is
(ten to one, one to ten)
Make the time?
Get particular?
You are number one!
Not number two, but number One
You do,
In the spirit of you do
Can you feel me?

You is what you want to be.
Get particular, Be particular
?.can you feel, feel yourself?
You are number one!

Feel yourself all over, embrace yourself
Squeeeeze it, mm
Can?t be too tight either?.
Doesn?t that feel nice?
Yeah?.
Let?s pump up the volume so we know our own scores

Pump it, pump it, pump it, pump it, pump it
Let?s get particular!
Be that particular baby.

It?s okay
Being particular ain?t selfish
Because you are number one
get particular, get particular
because you are number one
you are number one
you are number one

Pump up the volume
Pump it, pump it, pump it, pump it,
? look at those muscles!
Don?t let the air out, pump it up,
?don?t fly away baby
Flap your wings to land.
Come on down, to earth,
it?s okay to get earthy.
Walk around with the rest of us peeps
Maybe you?ll figure out?
You?re just walkin? with yourself!
Blue and Green
tell the difference?
How about that?
Is it green-blue or blue-green?
Clean your lenses boy

We know what time it is
You are number one
You are number one
eeny meeny miney moe let?s go
let?s go, go get on
go on and get it, get it with your bad self
got to go, got to go
got to go, got to come,
c?mon and go on?
You got me comin? you got me goin?
You got me comin? you got me goin?
You got me comin? and goin? baby
Feel you yet?

Is that you, knockin? on my door?
Look at you now with your bad self
Bright and shiny armour!
I?m proud of you, I?m proud of us
The light time is the right time
And you did it!