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Friday, 23 December 2005 10:54 |
#18
mysterioso
for rick steiger
not quite so mysterious
but oh so, mister, so
strange & manly, like monk
could make it sound,
going up & down the scale
with such deliber-
ation, like he had all
the time in the world
to delineate his meaning, in life too
he may have seemed
strange & mysterious
as he strolled the sidewalks
of west 63rd street, hat
& beard to limn his image,
shades with bamboo frames
were so very hip, yes, but oh so
functional, perhaps, to cover
the cast in his eye
a popular figure, monk,
they say, at home
in his skin & at one
with the people
around him, the kids
especially
around the neighborhood
would greet him
with some glee, a family
man & raconteur, monk
went home at night
to nellie, or stayed in
for years at a time
if he felt like it, or moved
over to jersey with the baroness
& barry harris, he kept
his own clock
exactly as he felt it, went
where he wanted to go & saw
what he wanted
to see, mister
ra or mister ree,
to you or to me,
whoever he wanted to be
detroit
july 31/december 7, 1985/
july 7, 1989
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