five years ago i
could be found
finding myself
in the music of
raging teenagedom;
of overpoweringelectricguitars
and voicesscreamingemotion
and bleedingbrokenhearts,
while the emo boys
moshed and danced
as much as their skin
tight jeans and thier
white studded belts
would let them.

(…take five):

i’ll be turning twenty this year
and these days you can often
find me
finding myself
kind of blue and
getting sentimental over
the saxophone that is
somehow singing of
a love supreme,
or hearing miles whisper
how to find
blue in green
while ella is reminiscing
about summertime
and sonny and i are
drifting away
on a slow boat to china.

“Change is inevitable in music - things change.” –John Coltrane

yet whatever is playing,
music is just as significant at
fifteen or
twenty or
twenty-five
or...

04/03/2006

Author's Note: No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music. -Billie Holiday

Posted on 04/03/2006
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