The Meaning Of Life?

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for Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith

What you take in and give out.
Breath, pause, breath, death.
Notes broken by silences until
breath ends and silence remains.
Blow each breath as it demands.
Try not to play it too complicated.
Arrange the score your heart hears.
Create the simplicity of sound itself,
wave, beat, non-metrical movement,
profoundly passionate as Coltrane,
hilarious as Monk’s impish desires.
Exalt in every given inhaled instant.
Exhale until the song itself expires.

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