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Susan with her china-white skin relaxed down to lace bra and ******* “Have you ever heard this?” she asks … sets the album, drops the needle in the groove We wait till bass fills in the room sending time and silence empty-handed down a hallway Susan lights a joint settles on the bed ample legs begging apart She ***** in deeply impounding clouds   Head thrown back Thick glossy hair— loses gravity Eyes half-closed, shadow-heavy clear and blue like piano The walls are muted trumpet stutter-hush of cymbal and the snare Crackling over scratches We are barely there Susan exhales a swirl of fog to a frail moon Only her sultry voice still holds me tethered “Have you ever heard anything— like this?” Miles flows  around me Smoking On the floor of Susan’s room lying clothed and drunk Soaked with chords and wonder I never hear him coming Miles takes his time
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Nov 25, 2016
Nov 25, 2016 at 12:22 PM UTC
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Susan with her china-white skin relaxed down to lace bra and ******* “Have you ever heard this?” she asks … sets the album, drops the needle in the groove We wait till bass fills in the room sending time and silence empty-handed down a hallway Susan lights a joint settles on the bed ample legs begging apart She ***** in deeply impounding clouds   Head thrown back Thick glossy hair— loses gravity Eyes half-closed, shadow-heavy clear and blue like piano The walls are muted trumpet stutter-hush of cymbal and the snare Crackling over scratches We are barely there Susan exhales a swirl of fog to a frail moon Only her sultry voice still holds me tethered “Have you ever heard anything— like this?” Miles flows  around me Smoking On the floor of Susan’s room lying clothed and drunk Soaked with chords and wonder I never hear him coming Miles takes his time
Clearly, Susan was not the ****** here.  The year was 1969; Lowell State College dormitory in Massachusetts.  I was 19, a music major and on my way to becoming "radical revolutionary" and a poet. The album, I think, was Kinda Blue with Miles Davis and John Coltrane et al https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqNTltOGh5c
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elizabeth-balise
Nov 25, 2016
Nov 25, 2016 at 12:22 PM UTC
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