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<div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">JAZZ DREAM<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I want to dream <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">            in jazz<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">            – not short fiction<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">                        with banal story lines..<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I want to dream instead<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">            in riffs of sound<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">            – notes, hot, cool, sweet, and blue.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">No more dramas          <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">            like last night’s tired script<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">            with characters better forgot<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">            and plots devoid of charm.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">No, henceforth,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">            I shall dream<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">            in jazz alone<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Wes Montgomery’s reflective chords,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">            the musing melodies of Thelonius Monk,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">            and Cal Tjeder’s <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">                        nuanced vibes.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">When the story has been told <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">            or grown too stale for telling,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">it’s time to close <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">            even the inward eye<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">and drift on Coltrane’s<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">            “Russian Lullaby”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">            time to dream<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">            exclusively<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">            in jazz.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Wrote this for a reading at a jazz bar in Macon, GA. It was still on their wall when I left. it doesn't </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">mention Dave Brubeck, but I like to think he would have enjoyed it or at least the sentiment.</span></div>

Posted On The Passing Of Dave Brubeck

JAZZ DREAM I want to dream in jazz – not short fiction with banal story lines.....

Posted On The Passing Of Dave Brubeck

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