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Abstraction Distraction



When music leaves geometry

and departs from the math’matic

where notes appeal to sentiment

and diverge from the schematic



When (freedom from oppressive rules)

music (life’s blood floods in minor key)

leaves (upon a whim blown by the wind)

geometry (structure holds me back from free)



and (a tie to all I’ve known and see

which then) departs (of all of me

to take on that outside) from the (common life

of those who seek to rebel against the) math’matic.



where (now there’s a question, can you dig?

while I throw) notes (as my heart leads

and I find tones to) appeal to (what our common

pain resonates within the part that catches) sentiment



(Break the rules that hold me back) and

(free me to scat that riff from where I) diverge

(from that which pushes me in the mold) from the

(monkey that rides my back to point at that) schematic



When music leaves geometry

and departs from the math’matic

where notes appeal to sentiment

and diverge from the schematic



© Bart Breen 8/9/2001