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Bloodstream

photo credit: Bill Cottman

Bloodstream

There were no sardines

Until captured fish were labeled that

Entrapment / dismemberment

Gets embedded in knowledge

ImproviXation is necessary

Because rote of daily living

Is institutional

Acting as samurai



Often affords escape from

Captivity and sardine cans

Courage is culture

Memory of struggle lives in blood

Duend...

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ImproviXation #107 & China!

photo credit: Kari Musil 

ImproviXation #107 

  Some days I wish I could bend my knees

Lean backwards and wail like a saxophonist

But I know anyone within earshot

Would hear that wrong

There are days

I feel like screaming

But I don’t dare

I’m afraid of what the

Vibrations might cause

On  days like that I like clamp on headphones

Crank up volume on John C...

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