Maybe I realized when I was 13 but forgot (since I haven't done algebra in hella forever) but did you realize that Roots Radicals is a math analogy? Did you remember that radical means "square root sign"? Uh, yeah, duh, you say. Okay okay!
I forgot about that. Radicals, squares, hometown roots I share with Rancid--Berkeley and Campbell (with love to Washington state as the land of my grandfather). You were always a part of me.
I'll never be as punk rock as you, but I've got my street cred--don't doubt it. If you can hear me whisper, I'll tell you all about it. No I won't.
I was thinking of my roots, thinking of the radical... thinking of the blunt, the dark, the wild, bad, subversive; how now I'm all offices, letters, health, school, the discursive...
My paws trample in the snow the alphabet. I stand on my head, watch it all go away.
("Junkie Man"...And Out Come the Wolves)
Campbell, California, I will love you forever.
Berkeley, you are my lizard brain.
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