Everything is everything
it's all in how you look at it
the day is the day
the sky is the sky
the song is the song
all is all is all
it's all in how you look at it
music is music and that's that
but music can't be music if the notes are flat
but ears can change and be changed...
listen with different ears and you can hear music everywhere
on the freeway, the factory floor,
in your garden and the creaking of the basement door
Coltrane and Bach used the same notes
Hendrix and Segovia played the same instrument
Cage and Gillespie sang in harmony
listen and you'll hear them
listen and you'll hear
listen and you'll
listen
art is beauty this everyone knows
but the portrait is ugly if you misplace her nose
but eyes can see much, much more than we think...
change your lenses, clean your glasses,
pop out them orbs and replace them if you have too...
whatever it takes to see things in a way unknown to you
see, see, see! that there is no fundamental difference in beauty
whether it is a flower or a sunset or a broken spring coil or a rust stained
toilet or...
poetry is poetry and it rhymes and it doesn't and
it has meter and it doesn't and it is static and it is dynamic
and it has almost nothing to do with language
if you want poetry listen to your dog snoring
if you want poetry go watch snails fucking
if you want poetry follow the mailman for seventeen blocks
if you want poetry check out the backhoe digging a trench out on Western
if you want poetry look closely in the eyes of your lover and don't you dare
turn away
if you want poetry remember...
everything is everything
everything is everything
everything is everything
everything is everything
everything is everything
everything is everything
(c) David McIntire