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Saturday, 10 December 2005 13:47 |
pannonica
for columbus luckett jr.
the baroness pannonica
de koenigswater, a lady
of the jazz persuasion
would pick up monk
in her rolls royce
& cruise the great master
around town, stop &
get something hip to eat,
pick up bird or
diz or hampton
hawes, dig some jams
somewhere uptown,
nica's tempo
moved her nicely all
over manhattan
in her rolls
royce car, an elegant pad
in the stanhope hotel
where bird literally croaked
watching the dorsey bros. on tv,
march 12, 1955,
nica's dream
turned inside out
by the body on the floor
but monk still hung
with the baroness, no
doubt closer now
from the loss of bird
& the tightening
around their hearts
& as hampton hawes
tells the story, there was monk
& his wife nellie
& the baroness one night
standing next to the rolls,
a big grin on monk's face, &
"hey hamp," sez monk,
"now i got me a black woman
& a white woman!"
yeah, monk,
just like the keys
on a motherfucking piano
bath, michigan
march 8, 1985 |
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