Tag: history

• I’ve been banging my sore fingers 
  on this keyboard more than forty 
  years now and can still hardly carry a 
  tomb or remember many standards 
  and was never good with theory or 
  
  practice and one sour slip can send me 
  spiraling away from melody 
  for millennia and maybe 
  history or the twisted strands 
  
  that compile me or is this just mask and 
  pantomime I bleed to move on  
  now and clear friends of the past know 
  
  I will smile at the songs we shared and 
  no there never was an accordion 

  December 5, 2025

  accordion, fingers, friends, history, keyboard, melody, practice, songs, standards, strands, theory, tomb

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• Put on sturdy gloves before you
  handle history it may suddenly
  ignite without warning which may
  among other things tend to leave one with
  out a date or eyebrows for the big dance

  but maybe some message is still slowly
  twining up some neglected balcony
  sewing a subtle missive near
  the color of the last clinging maple

  leaves if only we knew how but
  looking out the window or similar
  is no use in this hallucination

  maybe don’t update me on the progress
  until the streets are ripe the peaches clean

  April 4, 2025

  dance, eyebrows, gloves, hallucination, history, maple leaves, missive, peaches, progress, streets, window

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• and I freeze no matter how fancy the pen or the whisky it’s all the same my lost shoes they say this winter the victims will write history

  February 8, 2023

  history, pen, shoes, victims, whisky, winter

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