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Mad Head - Part I

The slow glow from the opaque street light near Bleecker Transfixed Holding a cool gaze Floating to a raunchy head beat The distinct smell of eucalyptus honey Visions of thick drops running down the side of Enola's mason jar Extract thoughts of jazz I welcome the resurrections and prepared to ride a riff with Trane Along with Dizzy altering scales of compositions spiral into "I'll never go back to Georgia." licks Crisscross and seduce me with his hurricane horn Stopping just long enough to hear Moody scat Thumping mad Max into memory instead of memorex Easy flow where my mind go Groove along side daddy do good Waited for me inside Sweet Basil El Dios of drums Flailing The first click The first hit The full blown litany of sound boiling my blood Possessed Unleash the beast inside to rhythms so loose So free 2 a.m. with my cool gaze A warm glass of Hennessy "No ice please." A couple of cats Art Blakey Playing while I drag my straw stuffed nose to sniff up the last bit of blow Long after the light blew Lepadah copyright 2008
— Lepadah, Apr 08, 2009

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Country/Region: New York

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yenti

yenti

17 years 1 month ago

Lepadah

A much different description of your loves of the music world, there in your world as you live the night along, not my type of music but you portrayed the time so well, look forward to Part 2 You take care and not to much drink in there, lol, Yours Ian.T