steve dalachinsky - the warm up

the warm up


what dya wanna play Bird?

doesn’t matter

how fast Bird?

fast as ya can

what key Bird?

Z

ok how ‘bout all the things you are?

i don’t care

Bird steps out front hits the head @ breakneck speed.

in my garden in deep structure of night
Bird knocks on the door
scribbles Chi Chi on a scrap of paper
lickity split
this is for yer next session.. he says & splits
that fast Bird did things that fast
in the night @ breakneck speed
in the deep structure of the garden in the night

transformation deletion insertion assertion
permutation
Bird blows himself out in front of the t.v. at the countess’ pad
in Paradise this close to hell
hello N.Y. hell’s low.


Bird did Bird’s thing done just about everything done
every combination large or small
unison chorus ½ last formula
strings strung spiritedly sensed
done as much as he could as much as more than all us boppers done
that time as now is newly devised fixed suffered benefits
strung swung string fall
out STRUNG OUT BIRD’S STRUNG OUT
notes strung out chords riffs changes STRUNG OUT
Out Bird falls out falls into the not-quite-so-deep structure of sleep
& dreams Bird Dreams
& in his dreams he seeks his dreams
slowly @ a breakneck speed
eyes open as sky’s open
straddling his final Confirmation
strung
swung
Bird ……. Out Swung Out.

steve dalachinsky 8/7/98 revised 8/10/07