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Laying it Down with Pegasus

Paula Ray

There’s a stale beer moonrise over the bar.
I’m alone on the stage with my sax, Pegasus.

It’s slow-hand-love
when dead bodies have been swept away
and trash has been emptied.
There’s no spotlight drilling my brain,
no fog of bad breath,
no chainsaw laughter drowning drums.

Pegasus and I are laying it down
in this dirty jazz coffin,
laying down the foundation
for something better than this bar.

He remembers his glory days
back in WWII
and I remember life,
before my own war.
We let the memories ooze
and seep into this pine box.

I got the recorder turned on
and life is good, when you play
until the sun gives you a standing ovation
and the moon refuses to leave.



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