Art's desire to get it all said

to all who thought him dead

in the joint & beside the point

 

Art's struggle to sing it all

through jazz warfare & tell

everything he knew in brass

speed rap stir crazy utopia

of muscle chops push it in your face

rough unrelenting grace

 

fierce Art pitbull clamps down

pulls edges out in time to break through

scream knotty beauty

toe to toe w/ any joe

who thinks they know better

 

Art tattoos blue needles into moonlight skin

junk light makes mirrors perfect

 

Art's smoke aches out of wounds

 

L.A. Art burritos & bebop

black guacamole serge zoots

Central Avenue cat copping

 

Pepper at Club Alabam

in Lee Young's band

all the chicks & the hatcheck chick

have big eyes for Art's horn