February Second

i'm not from the Bronx
North Phil or Compton
but i have cable and can 
spell HDTV

i dreamed that Hank Williams was
humming Parker's Cherokee in 
his own dream that 
wasn't wet  mine was

because

when Dolphy plays flute on the
back of a flatbed truck in the 
Pennsylvania woods 
at 8:15  on a Groundhog
morning it is better than a
freebase party in a brownstone
in Brooklyn
NYC is just another 
off-milky way star 
who's not yet ready for the
big galaxy

meanwhile

the calendars in Broward County 
celebrate the second day of
Black History month with 
a toast to Red Foxx 

Trane was from somewhere 
elsewhere too but few notice

not all men are superfluous 

no one
sees her shadow when she
stays in bed all day with the sun 
turned off and the honey turned on 
i'd rather be here with Rita the
articulate mourning Dove than
have a quick Union with Gabrielle
the fundamental difference is the mouth

possum begins with the letter O
in the big city.