"Jazz is a language of invention" -- Then poetry is the language of open-handed smack-down. :-)

I really liked this one. The language is lovely... and I'm not at all biased. Honest. Thought it was interesting that the perspective is the Poet's and he's almost sympathetic. Then again, it has to be from his perspective. Doesn't it?

There's also some meta going on here. Dead, numbed art affronted by the new. Anyway. Very nice.