gigging for food and rent and babies crying
like abstract saxes, coltranes from the get-go
born into the blues of the mighty whitey world
(if your product placement lived here, you'd be home today) --
to watch people like themselves loot democracy,
talking smack, even as they ransack each other's minds
3 Square Deals on the table daily, kids
with a halfway decent chance of getting into Harvard
occasionally claiming to be Cherokee, edgy that way
where they'll hear clarinet lectures from reedy apologists
maybe a guest lect sax from Slick Willy in shades
the
Press, the pundits, but no liddle people
.
deep, vain
slide tromboneses, snares
a splash of brass cymbalism
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