Give Me Your Coordinates
the rush of heaven felt in the flesh
the tingle of sparkling particles of your laughter
dancing on my eardrums, tearing through
grey matter, shredding rationality into a salad
of ebullient emotions, you caress my genitals
and i let go of every restraint, some people
think i write about sex too much but
this is life, we're exploring the world, the universe
i am old enough now not to worry about making it
secure enough to believe in myself, wise enough to know
the self is all others, both the gotten with & the avoided
i am about to go out to meet someone but first i had to write
creativity is the highest form of living, life ragingly extended
into whatever is possible, sometimes even approaching the impossible
like the way trane sang, or how i just sat down
& let these words tumble out of the vast nowhere
of my consciousness, nowhere
now
here
—kalamu ya salaam
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Musical composition: "Jackie-ing" by Thelonious Monk
Kalamu ya Salaam – vocals
Stephan Richter – clarinet
Wolfi Schlick – tenor
Frank Bruckner – guitar
Recorded: May 31, 1998 – Munich, Germany