What’s The Buzz ?
Corner of 28th Street and 5th Avenue, NYC, May 10, 2012
Posted on May 10, 2012 by miriamaziz
The muse runs on ahead as I call out after her, “Where are you taking me? That’s not the way to the recording studio.” And she says, “I know. But before we get there, we’re going to play a game of chess. You know how to play don’t you?
You just put your fingers together and…wait for it…there! Check mate! Come on, we’re late.” I’m out of breath. I can’t keep up. I start to press the 
palm of my hand into my chest to check for the beats per minute that make a pulse. “But you’re going the wrong way.” “No I’m not”, she says. “This way you get to see which squares are missing when you start to make, what the others told you not to make.” “And what’s that?”, I ask. “What?”, she asks. “What I must not make?” “Why, make a sound of course!” “What if I can’t help it?”, I ask. And she says, “Isn’t that why we’re here?” How could I forget? “Was hast du gesagt?” “Nothing, I was just thinking how easy it is to forget how when you…” And she’s gone. There’s a man coming down the stairs wearing a base-ball cap and holding a black plastic bag that brushes against my left knee as I hear a song of sweet nothings that I whistled in the dark as he staggered after me on crutches, speaking of the heart as a phantom limb. That, I decide, is what I will sing about today whilst we struggle to keep our heads above the water mark as I watch the tide come in over his shoulder.
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