Charles Beaumont by Black Country

Author:Black Country [Country, Black]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-02-11T13:11:30+00:00

New to anybody.

I saw Sonny get a look on his face, and we sat still and listened while Spoof

made love to that horn.

Now like a scream, now like a laugh—now we’re swinging in the trees, now the

white men are coming, now we’re in the boat and chains are hanging from our

ankles and we’re rowing, rowing—Spoof, what is it?—now we’re sawing wood

and picking cotton and serving up those cool cool drinks to the Colonel in his

chair—Well, blow, man!—now we’re free, and we’re struttin’ down Lenox

Avenue and State & Madison and Pirate’s Alley, laughing, crying—Who said

free?—and we want to go back and we don’t want to go back—Play it, Spoof?

God, God, tell us all about it! Talk to us!—and we’re sitting in a cellar

with a comb wrapped up in paper, with a skin-barrel and a tinklebox—Don’t

stop, Spoof! Oh Lord, please don’t stop!—and we’re making something,

something, what is it? Is it jazz? Why, yes, Lord, it’s jazz. Thank you, sir,

and thank you, sir, we finally got it, something that is ours, something

great that belongs to us and to us alone, that we made, and that’s why

it’s important, and that’s what it’s all about and—Spoof! Spoof, you

can’t stop now—

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