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Rich Warren - Sing Out! Vol. 51 #1 (Mar 1, 2007)
Coffee Shop Scale
I am fully invested in these words
married to music -
rhythm, harmony, melody, urgency,
my guitar,
and my voice.
But if I listen closely
I hear the old man gumming his pencil
and the absolute certainty in his scratches at a crossword,
an exhale surrendered as pawn topples queen,
you shuffling your economics notes yet again,
even the argument
(and if I really concentrate, its architecture)
concerning the exchange rates of such currencies
as songs and singing
and silence.
~ original poem by Chuck Cheesman
