Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Improv: Derek Walcott’s “Blues”

Those five or six young guys
I’m seeing down beneath Central Park
singing a standard I’ve forgotten
and beating their dry drums until they’re
tuneless—I hate them. Not because they’re
foreign or lonesome or high.
I have  a sneaking suspicion they wouldn’t
let me in, join in their sick geodesy,
eating their suitan.

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