the classics

I've listened to them
all.
frank sinatra
miles davis
dave brubeck
john coltrane
thelonious monk
duke ellington
charles mingus
art blakey
ella fitzgerald
louis armstrong
tommy dorsey (before he brought in frank)
benny goodman
count basie
and If I've missed one,
please forgive me,
I did not have time to name them all.
and I know you are all in your graves
and
tonight I gracefully dig you
to listen to you
once again when life has
itself
dug its own
miserable grave.
except you were anything but,
you were the life in your death that
I never had in
life.
at least not yet.
it's all playing
playing in the backround
as they
begin to bother you
questioning
what exactly it is that you're
doing.
it's all so strange to them
too.
and I don't blame them;
they don't know where I am
(I don't know either)
frank sinatra plays
another song
and life
prevails.