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Extemporizing


a
pub
in the midst
of
warehouses
on
cobblestone streets
with
single rail tracks

Clydesdale Piss
"on Tap"

musicians-vocalists
get together
monday nights
to
recreate
shadows of sound
extemporizing
freely
rupturing the shackles
of
self-doubt

a
cerebral pianist
with an ear
for exotic melodies
fingers
a series of notes
spontaneously
devising
sets of shifting rhythms
that never quite
settle down

a
bluesy chameleonic
tenor flutter
is
soft and enormous
primal emotions
ooze
expressively

an
able fretman
a
plugged-in bass
takes the lead
in a cool lyrical
way
funking up
trading licks
with an orgasmic
sax

quick soft swishes
on cymbals
subtle and effective
and
cracking rimshots
spur
an
orgy in rhythm

bending minds


Produce Row

Redd Williams
11/26/08


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