Wears no clothes
My thoughts
Got shoved into 140 letters
Incomplete
Her words threw punches
In the air
Music gave 'em gloves
Death made her angry
She smiled less in life
A lesson she'd learned
He sang like
It was that time of the month
Just like every month
As a City goes in circles
One man thought too highly of himself
In his struggle
One man thought he was bigger
Than a community
But she didn't say anything
She stepped aside
He didn't know what was real
She only knew her road
One woman thought she was crazy
But time just needed to catch up
For a bottle of wine
To give this bouquet
She started sayin' sorry less
And she started singing more
And she on a Tuesday night
Was Still in love
With everything
That night
He started to speak
A language of intoxication
Fragments of a subway conversation
Before expounding his poetic genius
She was only 18
Talkin' funny lines
No one knew her genius
Before Time would one day catch up
He stuck around
To sing
About this street
In mid life
No longer young
Vibrant
Aging with the wind
Fighting for its life
He played an instrument
No one knew he had
Everybody around me
Is thinking
They know
What they see
A woman from another country
Makes you dream of another country
Two women dream of a new life
A new dream
Of something not the same
Dancing in the rain
One man needs to say yes
10 times in 6 months
To open a new door
If he can
I was daydreaming
And I missed a turn
I heard a new voice
Wondering, what is an old voice?
And then saw a tall man
Sing young
A drummer dropped in from Santiago
Wondering if he'd found the right place
Looking for a man named Pablo
There but never on the billing
A man came in with heart
Who used to sing with a lotta heart
A woman who took pictures of a bridge
Was no longer there
But the bridge still stood
Shining bright
Grey Dog coffee shop
Where we met
Was suddenly gone
To an expensive neighborhood
With cheaper rent
Met a man from Haiti
Who lost all his friends in the quake
We spoke of Moriso
Whose words still stand
Whose beats still beat
A song lasts 100 years
Long after we are dead
Longer than anything that stands
Longer than a home
A woman from Canada came
And I knew 2 places on her street
A fiddler for Nelly Furtado dropped by
And their van was robbed of JD and GPS
A piano man asked me
To name a bad pop song
He could free hand better
On the fly
I thought of Rick Astley
Never Gonna Give You Up
A karaoke video from Nashville
And a hungover bartender
Later a man sung Poor Me
Stripped of lanterns
As it neared midnight
He was long past overtime
The inky skies showing
Where airplanes once flew
Were starting to fade
Tracing the night
Earlier a painter painted 3 singers live
Immortalized in colors
Singing of the past
Words that came to last
A singer born into Bossa Nova royalty
Tells me how they tested sound in a car
Sound in less than perfect sound
How it sounds for real
His lines were inarticulate
But painted a landscape
A line for everyone
He'd just seen
A guitarist heads to Sao Paulo
Where there is litte green he says
He asks me to hear his record
And write him what I think
A Samba guitarist plays
As 3 men drink Bordeaux
And Ohio started to beat
As a blues man from Brisbee beamed
Next to a woman in red shoes
Impromptu he sung
Brooklyn bar patrons
Filled his pitcher with paper
She smiled and saved my world
She smiled and showed me a new world
She sang so well - Stranger Than Fiction
And about a town
In a different language
That had a beautiful sound
She dedicated a song but did not mean to brag
He played a little guitar so big
She had a big voice
From a small frame
He wore an NY hat
And had a lot more to live
Another man lost his heart
And was looking for some place to find it
Her art didn't make any sense
But she felt so much
And sounded like poetry
She had a degree in making sense
Of what didn't make sense
Two jazz musicians played classical
I thought I saw John Malkovich in the house
She served me two Manhattans
I hadn't had in years
I slept on a street
Where Jonesing with the Jones
Once happened
He closes Mondays
A bar fixture of decades
He met a friend from California
He hadn't seen since Berkeley
Who'd sing American traditions
No one else sung
In the car, a 17 yr old sang
About a man with a beard
Covering up a smile
Once there
He heard a new blues man sing
A song an old friend wrote
Who died long ago
I heard a blues man no one knew
Whose face you could not see
Who influenced Jimi
The Secret Identity sold out
As the cowboy sung Hurt
Dressed in a news cap
She sung a lonely song
Very lonely
He saw no crowd and sung
A vagabond who'd just arrived
A history buff listened
And knew his stories
A canopy was taken down
To let light in
Where the sun hadn't shone in decades
The accordion plays gypsy to tango with a piano
Acrobats on a small stage
Two friends who sung 8 yrs ago
Trombones trying to play violin
Two guitarists Damn Good
Yesterday was like driving 12 hours
Into a Brian Eno Landscape
This was written stream of consciousness
Blind on one thumb
Down a highway
And I started to think of the other side of the world...
Unethical renegades
Entitled to an ego
Do nothing in their place
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