Monk Dream
fr The Music Room
Same nonsleep
with unaccompanied celesta
wondered in the area of
tonal seed sounds and they can’t talk about
mental health on the same days that we
play at playing
I haven’t sensed any chord changes
because they are all laid out before
me an endless ostinato on a scroll of,
hidden notes.
Lilac notes, quarter notes, dead notes, severed notes, notes from
the grave, poisoned notes, notes
black notes
& who was it who
said music is really between the notes,
well it doesn’t matter
they are all there in the head of a Sphere, that’s my
middle name.
People even ask what is jazz, what can
this music be and I just tell them ‘both at once’
and let them figure it out
No one can talk to me when he’s like this, they whisper. sounds good
to me rhythmic space exploration when
when they are expecting
swing I am a walk in my chromatic garden sometimes on another sphere simultaneously
that high, maybe Delius
maybe not, (the stranger comes back
she sees me instead)
No time for Monk deeper in their dream
maybe I’ll wake up and play something that they
won’t be able to hear it until we’re back uptown.
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