The Story of Pastorius
(One View of a Secret)
SUPERMAN
on bass
your
face
a stoic murmur
of
the
fire
within.
HONESTLY
lips in a kiss too much Scotch straight
no chaser necessary’d only water down the flavor
HAPPY BIRTHDAY fingers splayed
on bass no fretting living
forever in this Teen Town JACO!
harmonics
fill
this The edge
side the cliff the stage
the where we nest all possibilities
page as stuff the stars deployed
JACO! No regrets coyote
you’ve just picked up a beret’d shamanic
ghost of an echo that whispers
JACO!
SUPERMAN
on bass
face
contorted in the ecstasies being life’s foundation
a double stop inventing life
energy raw as meat gets JACO!
NOW TOTALLY LIBERATED
now high notes Bird
land high
now bass on top
inversion of expectation
now a haze done
in purple bass as the freight
train over tracks
a funky pop here
a thumb splayed in apocalypse there
now Cachao spies w/ a wry grin &
JACO!
Your low song keeps the last planet
in orbit fire in the eyes
continuous Spring little notes together
in a run unencumbered
by thought pretense or fear.
SUPERMAN
on bass
your
face a stoic murmur
of the heart within
I JUST WANT TO BE LEFT ALONE in a room
w/ this bass this beast this beat repeating train over tracks
echo of My Favorite Things
skinny
I COULDN’T MAKE
A BASS SOUND
LIKE THAT
reverberating
a dream of Joni Mitchell
HAPPY BIRTHDAY now
totally liberated his huge self in concert
w/
his huge self in concert JACO!
in my dream field of vision
the bouncer did not piss you off JACO!
in my dream field of vision
earth rests on a sonic cloud
you invented JACO!
where the wild pack of dogs
sleep
satiated
the sky’s blue & intense
& the landscape changed
for ever
JACO!
4.16.03