August 4
(Jazz is Anne Waldman's Sex Religion)

Jazz = Liberation. Do not expect the trapped to GET IT
is unlikely is impossible is starlight @ noon is
her secret in her hips in her
sex in the shape of the waves her train horn makes or in
religion which would be sacred vamping of Miles or the flat

Notes Monk plays w/ flat fat fingers on one right key
in opposition to logical mind say
frazzled say enact an ancient rite, say
mind in service to a voice no one else can hear yet.

Say Misterioso, say I Mean You, Say Liza &
radio waves make all the clouds roll away, reveal 2 morning stars,
say Straight
comes w/ No Chaser
on humid Chicago Wednesday night slash Thursday morning on
a boat in Lake Michigan not one
wave to rock you except one what comes from a jazz radio
say sound wave, say it's Jon Hendricks putting words to Monk allow
singing notes replace piano notes revealing holy ancestral
voice come to slow pain of life in post-modernity to, say — a slow trickle.

8.4.01
Starting from 3 lines from
"- by candle light a bedouin."