Sunday, August 24, 2014

I always wake up

At 3AM        smiling broadly   and looking generally symbolic     Sun Ra rants about harmony and

      John Cage whispers   about dreams        each   with   his theory   and the burden of genius   :

liberation        can   lean good in the transition from ideas   to beliefs   I   always wake  up   clutching my grandfather's id card from the   Freedman's Bureau   just to be   sure    our capacity   for hallucinatory   relief    is still   in tact       and    Duke Ellington is still a Free Mason    and anguish still acts  surprised    


Funny how things can get away from you     for years  you can't remember anything     and then   one day   it all comes back

"Your father was a slave?" he asked.

What kinda foolish question is that, 'course he was.