1. <br /> <br />Listening to jazz now, I'm happy <br /> sun shining outside like it was my lifetime achievement award. <br /> I'm happy, <br />with my friend and her dog up in Durango, her emailing <br /> me this morning <br />no coon hound ailing yowls <br />vibrant I love yous. <br /> I'm happy, <br /> my smile a big Monarch butterfly <br /> after having juiced up some carrots, garlic, seaweed, <br /> I stroll the riverbank, lazy as a deep cello <br />in a basement bar-- <br /> <br /> smoke, cagney'd out patrons <br /> caramel and chocolate women in black <br /> shoulder strap satin dresses, <br /> and red high heels.<br /><br />Jimmy Santiago Baca<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/listening-to-jazz-now/
