thu28jan99
		(oh to be the titans of zen)
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		we have a rachel here in town
		she's as good as rachels come

		violin is her name and being best
		is her game and a half

		she has a website i say find it
		for yourself
		it don't take no brains just
		this poem and altavista

		one day a commuter train took out her hand
		but she's back now, storming the citadel

		one day in my own hospital stay i thought to myself
		that i'd like to play ravel's tzigane with rachel
		a brand new arrangement for two

		tzigane is ravel for furious solo violin
		and i play and compose
		psych ward-picked up and honed
		beginner pentatonic scale improv piano

		and if it took that much transcription say
		too much...
		we could then take it to flamenco dancing
		and then teach it to to to the people
		the hard shoe way

		nothing's gona change my world
		is just a happy song or just a downer song 
		or a big fat lie
		or a portal for the entirely mortal

		titans of zen


			Marek Lugowski
			28 January 1999
			Chicago, Illinois