JAZZ DREAM
I want to dream
in jazz
– not short fiction
with banal story lines..
I want to dream instead
in riffs of sound
– notes, hot, cool, sweet, and blue.
No more dramas
like last night’s tired script
with characters better forgot
and plots devoid of charm.
No, henceforth,
I shall dream
in jazz alone
Wes Montgomery’s reflective chords,
the musing melodies of Thelonius Monk,
and Cal Tjeder’s
nuanced vibes.
When the story has been told
or grown too stale for telling,
it’s time to close
even the inward eye
and drift on Coltrane’s
“Russian Lullaby”
time to dream
exclusively
in jazz.
Wrote this for a reading at a jazz bar in Macon, GA. It was still on their wall when I left. it doesn't mention Dave Brubeck, but I like to think he would have enjoyed it or at least the sentiment.
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