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    The Return of Old-School Hipster

    By Wattree on Sat, 08/22/2015 - 10:13pm |
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    POETIC
    BEBOP FOR LATTER-DAY BEATNIKS
    AND OTHER SUNDRY SUBTERRANEANS
     
    The Return of Old-School Hipster
     
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    Pass The Bongos, Ginsberg,
    as this scrapple from my Apple
    takes a whack at Kerouac
    and the Hip Hipster of Hipness
    hiply hip you unhip lames
    to what it truly is to be hip to the
    very hip hipness of that which is truly hip:
     
    To be hip is to embrace that which is hip
    based purely on its hipness
    rather than merely because
    it is hip for a hipster
    to be hip.
     
    Hip is the essence
    of that which is hip.
    Therefore, the hip
    don’t Be hip, they Are hip.
    Thus, a true hipster is hip
    to the very hip fact that hipness
    is hip in its own hip regard,
    and not merely hip
    for those unhip,
    who would be hip,
    simply to embrace the hipness
    of what they think is hip
    for the sole unhip purpose
    of being hip to what's hip,
    you hip?
     
    So, to a very hip extent,
    hip is the intrinsic hipness
    of that which is actually hip.
    Therefore, one cannot
    be hip without being hip
    to the fundamentally hip fact
    that it is unquestionably
    unhip to try to
    become hip, or be hip--
    since an effort to be hip
    is the exceedingly
    unhip antithesis of that which
    is hip within the realm of hipness itself.
     
    Thus, in the hippest
    of the most glibly hip fashion,
    allow the Hip Hipster of Hippness
    to hereby hiply hip you to
    the inescapably hip fact
    that so hiply follows:
     
    To Be Hip Ain’t Hip.
    Thus, to be hip, or not to be hip
    is definitely not the question.
    For there is no question
    about what is hip.
    Simply put,
    Hip Simply Is . . .
    you hip?
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    Eric L. Wattree 
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    Comments

    I'm hep to your hip. 


    by MrSmith1 on Sat, 08/22/2015 - 11:41pm

    Thank you. You show up in Mr. Smith's blog. Wonderful. Thank you. Well done.


    by Richard Day on Sun, 08/23/2015 - 7:10am