M & M & M

I’ve got this picture in my head -
The three M’s … M and M and M
Miles – everything with style
Kind of Blue? All Blue, baby!
Mad Monk – dancing like a man possessed
Telling it Straight! No chaser man!
And Mingus – roaring out a message
Sliding into that bass irresistably
Irrefutably
Undeniably…

Here he comes!
Swingin’ into town
The Bird calls
That gunslinging Bird
That blue Bird’s
Got the Bird blues
Paid his pussy cat dues
Woodsheddin’ on a bridge
Round midnight

Got this sound in my ears
That mood indigo
Them old devil blues
Those nodding your head
And tapping your feet blues
Down on fifty-first
Where the street musicians are wailing
That boogie stop shuffle
It’s a colloquial dream
Just scenes in a city.

Moanin’ a testament
Painting a blue montage
A back home blues
A sad and deep cryin’ blues
They’re painting me a portrait
In three or four shades of blue

~ by Soma on 29 June, 2008.