I: THE EARLY EVENING
Smooth cool clear blue music
To the tune of true surrender in my head
Instead of
hot and bothered
I’m
smothered.
Crystal…
Float by me-
swinging
Bringing longings, singing
Chime the time in
rhyme of
melody.
Coz
you and me
Are blown.
….
….
And now we fly
Sky-high, by the
flying drive
You instill,
Still groovin’
Moovin’ to the
hats and
Forgetting every-day
The way we say
The things we say
There’s no dismay-
As fingers play
Jivin’ happy tunes.
A
blue moon groove mood gone too soon
It’s true.
….
….
II: GETTING DRUNK, GETTING SOLID
The
piano player skips about
Here and again a whisper or shout
Heading out-
And feel the steel strings
The
bass brings-
Undertoned.
A tinny
cymbal spins commotion
The movement’s motion
A notion of song
BAM! BAM!
To jam the jazz,
Jivin’- survivin’
Making a living saving lives
In
New York dives
Like this
Bliss you three bring
When you sing-
Drum goes
solo
Charging the audience
With tom and crazy
crazy song
Never to long to go
On and on and on
Fly- you three- for me.
Through cigarette fumes
And old perfume
The tune of the tomb
BOOM! BOOM!
Yhah! Yhah!
POW! POW!
Then to now
SOLO!
Kill my… my…
My mind
And erase all falsity!
Make me one with my heart
And thrill me completely!
Make me believe again
While with pen
I
sketch an echo
A tiny portion
Of the beauty you show
You glow
From music
All built up inside.
….
….
III: SET BREAK
A lapse…
Perhaps a break is needed.
I’d believe it.
The talking all around
Gets me down for now.
I’ll wait.
….
….
Still waiting-
Baiting and biding time…
Damn you, time.
The crime you plead
Spins
broken dreams
And there’s no sound
To be found
To
fill the void
Between.
….
….
IV: SECOND BAND/ AWAKE AGAIN
YATATAAH!
Back in again!
Different friends-
Godsends that pound!
Broken reach
Cannot be found-
Is hard to teach-
The weak seek sneaking stares-
Who cares?
The rhythm skims the brim
And
sinks…
The brink has disappeared
With all surrounding
The astounding grinding,
pounding
BRRRRRRRRRRRRRAT!
Shit!
I
soar, dive, driving-
Pile it on me!
I can take it!
Unbraking, unbroken-
This is spoken-unspoken-
Written to
JAZZ!
….
….
This new
trombone
Brings new
blue tone
To
white-hot tune and song
Strong he leads-
The seeds he sows grow strong
In
our insides.
What good is a mind
When one cannot handle
What there is to find
Inside the heart?
Don’t even start.
Don’t ever halt
Your song!
….
….
Motherfucker SING!
HYAH!
I’m totally bound!
The pound of your pseudo-vocal sound
In an
underground
Downtown
dive
That WILL survive?
….
….
V: BEYOND THE MENTAL
BRRRRRRRRRRRUMPT!
The crumpy thumped
trumpet stumps nerves
Never swerves
Learning again how to
dream
To SCREAM!
Take part in the heart of the
surrounding fling!
HAK HAK HAK HAK HAK!
Don’t take it back!
Discrepancy will note-
What goes
unwrote
Will choke the joke
Of choked-up voice
As you boys
Make me BLEED!
….
….
Try me.
Fly me to the moon,
As I
swoon to the soon-coming
Balloon of tune.
BOOOM!
Play me.
Play the piano, boy- the try-it-on
Gone-and-gone song
And be HERE!
I am the sometimes present-
Ever-never-present
Tenant of
song.
The
throng attempts to
drown you
But
oblivion surrounds you
You have found you
So
find me.
….
Dive! Drive!
Find
that line
Within my motherfucking mind!
Blind me to
reality
With
sanctity, qualify my insides!
Qualify that latin afro beat
That brings heat to beating-
Not at all
discreet
So
flow!
Go!
Show me how to know
What you know!
Blow my mind and
shine!
Gowing out from the
primal-
The
final words we’ll never know!
No words exist-
Persist in your
Motherfucking nature!
Drive me
bleed me dry
Try to
find me
Blind me
Lose me
Use my heart
And
Never
Stop!
VI: CLOSURE/ AMEN
You-
Be you
demons,
Devils
Or
gods...
Abuse
And
amuse me.
See me
With
warbling
wandering
wondering sounds
Tremble treble
and bend bass
for me
I am
infused
Confused-
Bemused
With the
pursuit
Of churning tune.
Beautiful you are.
Thank you.