A saxophonist played a steady beat while
a trumpeter played at his horn, clari-
netted up some with mischievous wiles,
and these all keep time together, yes these
three.
I know what you’ll say, they’re all to
different,
oh how could they keep a beat together?
Alone to themselves, sure, they can keep reverence
like a crow cast in monochrome feathers.
But chill, if you’re thinking of harmony
rules ‘n the pretty plastic pictures it gives
to your own modeled uniformity
than drop music and find a life to live.
Harmony’s
not kept in one special meter
but
it’s found when these three play jazz together.
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