7. Crazy Rhythm

To speed up
or slow down at will
like that
like Anita no matter
the lyric's "arcs"
or who you're playing with
or in what vehicle careering
depends on the services
over decades
of a drummer--
Roy Haynes & Sassy
would be another
example--capable of lowering
six whirring brushes
onto a linseed-darkened
dream sideboard
while defending a perogy
supper from a platoon
of gibbons--imagine
having such a pedal to press!
messing with the band
would just be the start--
to feel the tin-pan-alley world
snapping like a green twig,
but how tough after
negotiating now that speech
is king again the cabless dawn.