Classic

Byron bites back

a romantic’s attempt

to save literature

a nominal hero

obscuring

an alter-ego

under the cover of night

moonlit-nocturnes

a composition in

E Flat

much to Chopin’s

chagrin theinextricably linked

literary muse

music

doesn’t get the

hero’s credit

the softly spoken

prodigious pianistraconteur

reposed composer

materialising in

the Beat poet’s pipe

as burning ghosts

rising

the contemplators

of jazz

the rogue academics'

attempt to express

their minds

as they enunciate

the names ofhindu goddessesin borrowed tongues

Ginsberg covershimself in the

ash of marijuana

in revolt

lamentingthe rebirth

of Classicism

western civilisation

classifies

schools of thought

of literature

of music

of art

preceding its own

as

Classic

as

a retrospective renaissance

unmentionedwith

theabove

is

Langston Hughes’s

perspicacious pen poignantly

proclaimed

that the negro

speaks of rivers

the same way

Jazz was reincarnated

in Harlem

as the stolen magicseeds of

Africa’s trees

planted in

pale gardens

wilting red in the sun

Baldwin’s bliss

found in the

cobbles of paris

expatriate patriot

reader of political palms

foretelling the plightof the coloured

the pigmentedperfection

a dermal cage

Angelou

poetess

who sang with

the caged bird

until she was freed

liberation from

the midnight train of

Coltrane’s perpetual

blues every

hue drop

pin drop

silence

of the

saxophone’s

resolve

collected

in vinyl

lining the

shelves

of thrift shops

are

yesterday’s

hits

today’s

classics