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98 SIGHT READ ON A COUPLE STARS (for Sun Ra) A couple of stars late arriving into place, but these are the morning’s traffic helicopters hanging; the stage lights lit along the bottom of the curtain, the reddening Lake Michigan horizon. The lake’s line, on which the baton sun makes its downbeat for the day, strikes up the water pillar to the sky. That shimmering wand opens the orchestral world we play in on time (or missed cue), wherever we come in, our jump in/ origin we don’t understand making/as anywhere. Creation is arrival on hit it make it/ right on time Where ever in space it’s playing song on point by point, note by 99 note improvisation a score star by star— the lights on the cars down Lake Shore Drive —of the galaxial journey star by star ...

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