Ricktracks

Goudy Handtooled

~Pre-Assembled ~ Leftovers ~ Displacement ~
~Razorback Frogs ~ Aspiring Lemons ~

Pre-Assembled ~~
We are all like “Goudy Handtooled,”
An invented ‘font’, imbedded and erased
On the same blackboard many times over~
Smeared together yet seemingly pre-assembled,
As each decade’s brain-trust develops and
Bears their soul on earth’s gravity constant,
Time marching, telepathic communication,
And binding forces of natural design, while
Man attempts to alter his ego and recycle
The “leftovers” of past generations.

Leftovers ~~
Inside a small seed in your mind there’s
A place where ‘virgin territory’ lives.
Secretly, you repress the urge over and
Over again to expand the need for new
Unexplored land, people and events.
If you could conquer~ you’d charge.
If control were easy ~ you’d consume.
But the peer pressure of mindless rules
Hold you in a reasonable freewill grasp
While life’s 3D “displacement” brands you.

Displacement ~~
You cannot place a footstep in mine
Without feeling my pains and joys that
Freely given to me by the Almighty One.
You can put yourself in a comfort zone,
Leveling the fields in your mind and
Molding the external pressure points yet,
You cannot be me and I cannot be you.
We are “hand tooled” from a unique molds
With a breath of life for you to wear out
And one day exhale in a moment of peace.

Razorback Frogs ~~
"How piqued gymnasts can level
six jumping razorback frogs."
Looking closely thru world wide webs we
Find this only in a ‘holalphabetic sentence.’
Frogs mold themselves around razorback
Ledges and croak the songs of love.
We, as they seek pleasure until eaten
And even after complete digestion
Our kahuna can regenerate body parts
And hang-out with the ‘Aspiring Lemons’.

Aspiring Lemons ~~
The tarty taste of this zesting gal
Keeps you on your yellow toes,
So tight will your tongue twist with
Joy in a French Country summer that
Dreams of wanting Oranges appear.
Scurvy leaves the windows clean and
Within the final moments of clearance
The rising scent of all that is pure
Quenches your thirst for the perfect
Complement in your pallet of finger paints.

Epilogue ~ The key to all of this introspection is found on the p22 website. This is a font foundry that specializes in letter fonts for your artistic computer needs. When you go to p22.com and find the ‘Goudy Handtooled’ font in the index, you will find the source for the questions at hand. Goudy Handtooled is the font being used on my 1910 Multigraph Gammeter Printer No. 36 to produce the book titled: Buzzing Around The Ranch ~”A Bee’s Journey Into Eternity” by R. Sterling Sawyer with a proposed publish date of October 2006.
A hand-bound leather book of Short Storys, Poetry & ‘Rickprints’, in a limited edition of 100 numbered copies.