TWO WAYS OF LOOKING AT THE TRUTH

if you understand music you understand sex ... of course there are some who say to try to understand either is to show how small is the chance you'll ever succeed ... but let's say they're wrong ... and that we understand the rhythm and the beat the violin and the drum ... understand them so throughly we're on the the march as soon as they begin ... and not your trudging stoop shouldered kind of march but a triumphant swimming kind of procession ... full of sound but not verbal ... full of meaning but no way your normal kind of discussion ... long threads of narrative sharp angles of arguments without anyone speaking a word ... around the corner or down the block across the way whatever there may be someone singing ... but not here ... here the phrases are much shorter ... later the lyrical the dialog the dramatic monologue ... right now the whisper the moan the sigh ... hip swinging back gyrating knees bending kind of dance ... suddenly the arm goes out the finger pointing ... there now says the wise one ... here now ... that's what we've been saying all these long hard generations ... this now is always