WORKIN' ON JAZZ

jazz cat on tenor

holding back while the drum goes
from tom
to tap to head to cymbal to crash to floor
to explosion .. 

taking back another shot of air like
it's silk bourbon,
the piano man may get several keys
in on this song,
yet he knows over the course of the set

he will educate .. 

Educate on the remainder of a visceral American music medium

and thinking thoughts of how the 

world is now mixing chocolate in milk,
planting scallions,
giving a fat cat a collar,
looking at Stone Henge,
turning up Monk

turning down a gun for sale

and bleeding with truth as though water was
never water and

breath was always air.