Monday, August 2, 2010

Bass Line


Jazz feels lonely.
Ongoing pulse of the upright bass
Tugs at heartstrings,
Plucking away,
Extracting all the remaining pieces
Of ambiguous emotion
That might have had a chance
To be coaxed
Into a moment
Of momentary happiness.
I am too far gone.
All that’s left now is
A bass line
Throbbing and moaning
Through the body,
Keeping me breathing.
Maybe tomorrow.
Maybe tomorrow
I will have a pulse.
A bass line
Of my own.

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