13 Ways of Writing a Song | ||
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5 inside, among friends soft, deep tones shimmer from the mouth of a bass wrapped delicately in the musings of my fingers, a ballet on ivory 6 running on sand, after nightfall another pier passes and the hum of seabreeze is enough to summon melody moving feet stir the sand, imperceptable percussion 7 in the shower, after exhaustion words ricochet off slick white tiles with the voice of ten 8 on the bed, seeking solace away knobs to the left capo nine frets up whispering the way steel strings do as fingers glance over them deepening silence with each breath |
9 in my time of dying, anxiously calm lips feel their way in and out of reeds of a harmonica each breath laced with overwhelming vitality 10 at her doorstep, wracked with elation writing down words on notepads bearing hotel seals 11 in the common, among strangers deliciously alone with guitar, inverted stetson collects change 12 in the evening, winter beside me unfamiliar coldness stiffens fingers, they strum on accompanied by lungs forcing heat through a rusty harmonica 13 at a diner, well past breakfast time there is a certain romance about toast dipped in yolk and napkins laden with streaks of grease and hastily scrawled lyrics |
Vikram Maheshri |