ACCOUNT OF MY DAYS
Sequence: 4
OUT OF RESPECT
Albert Ayler's jukebox
kept playing the same tune
the side wore out its grooves
a legend was forming
as its ridges smoothed out
the lights on the jukebox
also simplified
a heroic pattern
where in all this had the horn got to
it wasn't following directions
there was a chance it would
lose its way and sink
into the sea we left long ago
best to send the jukebox
back to its ancestors
who in fact were standing up
out of respect
preparing a place of utmost honor
that could take
what the river of sound delivers