POEM IN TEN MOVEMENTS
1st Movement
Piano that goes
Burlesquing about the room
Sidles over
In trip
ping keys
To note a change
In atmosphere
To connect
A disparate tone
And resolve
A dissonance
That comes from
Being old and
[[Out-of-tune]]
-seeks to
slip around
the fingers
seduce
with tones
darksome
tippling
full of the treachery of whiskied hands
that fail to command
a sultriness coming from
agéd experience
that rinses rookies
that leaves words at a loss
making obsolescence
an impact of rhythm that belongs
in another spatial zone
one that could cull
even the curving cadences of highs and sharp
turns
in one sense
a less immediate
consequence of
the coming
In another the complete
coming together
Of some
Squandered key note
Some speech
Of tickled and tinkered
Ivories
2nd Movement
The imitations
Of//somethings
Tend to ward
The creation
Of//betterthings
And nurse
A faculty
For potentate
Proliferations
//that step outside
The usual
Please…
The usual
Has been
Nothing of the sort
And noting that
Please
A drink
For stiffened hands
Cold mouths
That need warming
Up
To
‘company a set that you don’t much
Desire
That much you don’t
Deride
Because that much more
Is that lot less\\ than if…
Loss was left to the collexion
Then drawing lots
Would
Be
More
Re warding
Of something so fine tuned
As the creation
Of the instant
That took hold
Grasped and gasped for air
To breath and
Propagate// that left::
An after taste
Of the afterhours
Club that could
Not
Be culled. Could not. Be. Could be. Called
[[Out]]
3rd Movement
In the same
Turn of
Phrase
You
Get
The turn
Of
A person
And the turn
In a piece
// [[ Is a tw iste d ]]
thing
The turn
In a twist
Is a flashing \\Occasion
To be
Obscured
Under A microfilm
For replay
A non-instant
Image
Pat-tern
Is the cause
Of hardwork
And craft
Grafting
Onto an image
A skin
Of film//
Is a protection
Against future
Undecided
In favour
Of the::
Bookpage
That
Isn’t
Leafed
Dogged
Isn’t read
Emptied
Of
//Purpose//
Suppose the::
Suffusion
Of
//Purpose//
for
Concept
sequestered
garlanded
questioned
scored and played.
4th Movement
Clefting
The key
That
Drinks
For joy
The bloodied
Stars
Causes
The//curtailment
Of the raising
The writing
Of a lyric(k
One that kicks
Screams with the sheen
Of//angsted
Tungsten notes
Loded
With a weightiness
//punishing [[finger-tipps]]\\
Wearily splintered
In the plunging
Of kracked fingernails
Calloused tips
That scant pay
//offered as
Apologee::
The improbability
Of music(k-ality
Is amusingly
Mesmerisinggly
Flitted over
By the lint-lined-pocketers
w/ poplexity
Inferiorities
Which mirror-mask
Infidelities toward
The serious…
Linimental
That lathers
Softens
The blow
That lilts
In the progression
Causing the shakes//
Cessation of a present
For a change
5th Movement
The preciseness
Of execution
Is eloquent
In it’s sustenance
Of the thematic
The drama
unravelling
In front of//
Draped as curtain
About the frame
Skeletal
Music(k:: jangling like bones
brokenn
Splinterd
Chipping
//unflatring
In a clamour
A rush for::
A resolution of the movement
A return to a gap
For bridging
The joinery
A welding
Of steels
That flay about
In
Dis
Cho-rd-ance//infantryisms
In need of reg
i
men
tay-shen
Man-u-facture
A [[fac-- - tory]] performance
Not
So easily mechanised
For
Efficiency - only the fluency
Of the playing
Matchable
In a game way
6th Movement
Themes built on edifying music(ks
On hungry stomachs
On garbled air
That reeks of genius
And could be quelled
By a single body shot
Smoke-screened
Couldn’t but help
The iced careen
Of careless bum-notes
A wind-whis’lin reed
That drags us
Jungled forward
Dashing
Cigarette-stretched
Sssskin
Nervous energy
Voluble
Verbose
And saying little enough
But containing
In brilliant bursts
Something
Otherwise
Un-acquire-able//
Can’t hardly contain
The [[una-ttain-able]]
A consistency of clapping
That callipers
To measure The mood
That cuts out
The concerto
That calls
Up for the instant
A breathlessness
In per-formance
The formation
Of
Something ever so exxtra
sensitive
7th Movement
Culminative
Yet catastrophing
Seminalists
Count-out
Signatures
Figures for demolition
Scantly
Prepared
And scantily-worn
Moments
Iridescent and
Re-ffract-ing
Plunking
Warped under
The weighted brass-notes
Weltering
In spot-light
Glare-caressing
- [[Cheek-kisst]]
Cuneiform
Simplicities
Tangle-codexed
Dissemination
From
Finger-travelling
Ginseng-ed muscularities
Of tone
Modalised//
8th Movement
The moment
Of slow-lagg
A drop off
In the instrumentation
That cyclical
Spools
A weavement
A crouching
Pluck of impish//
[[Mischieved]]
Sounds
Laying in wait
In a ditch of slowtime
Schooled and honed
Limp caresses
Of the keys
Lackking definition
Contsruction
Of escape-route
Melodies
Mannerism rush towards
An exit-sign
Unsurity
Remains crouched and skittish//
//beyond
Corollary of previous-- - movement
9th Movement
interluding curl-script
for the sight-read
the score cut up and loosed out
to the leasable
cocked for the ear
//to prick
-le
prickling
sharping
dagger
needle-threading
[[spine-tapper]]
clasping aplomb
unflinchingly stretching
thematic(ks
soft subtle voice
goes
morbidly
and happily//
to
nothing
10th Movement
For a finality
Pushing itself into relief
Utter
Ragged
//
callous-consumptive
tips
clearing the last notes along
in an orderly
pile
calibrating
momentous
&&spindling
intrepid
[[flourish-mentt]]
perspirating
conceptuals//
cooking
black-hot images
//to photogene
and keep as memory
wearied and …
contemplative
of the cards decked
and chopped
to cut out
dealsome
and head-dropped
pattern-lost
jazz-thick
self-consumptive
-- - in the now
and coda
plucked
shapes
carve out finishing
seconds
to wear away the last – and leave a silence
in a gap
to cause the wash over
resonant feel
signal
// the close.
