One poem from "John Coltrane And 15 Poems For Jazz" by Yannis Livadas

Recently Dead / Jackie McLean

Recently dead you are
I 've been told
on the telephone
by the lunatic
pianist
whatever they say play
the alto prance
fill the music paper
we 're all
the
dead ones
of the other
side


(Yannis Livadas: One poem from "John Coltrane And 15 Poems For Jazz" (C.C. Marimbo, Berkeley/California 2008))