WATCHING WATTS
Head of the Lakes Jazz Festival - March 9, 2002
Ernie got visceral
vivisected himself right onstage
Big brass thing
hangin' out his mouth
You know
where the alien baby comes out
right under the rib arch
how it blows out
right in your face
scary shit
the life
the guts
only this baby's beautiful
God bless the child
We breathed on it
And Ernie
you know
like
swallowed it
Spewed it back at us
His joy in the child
the jazz baby
big brass baby
flowed like his blood
like lava over us
We breathed
huffed
kicked
exploded in sparks with him
We kept glowing
long after the volcano jazz baby
returned to the womb
Composed by Mary F. Lee
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