Cafe Jam

photo by Caitlin Bellah

Slip-slap
 Clip-clap

Syncopated beats of feet find they fare
well on the floor

  Three twenty five seventy five and five

Laugh and dash
Scream and smash
Café Jam


This table’s got bass
sportsmen chat
That one’s in 8/16
and fusing like jazz
That table’s versed in blues
the scales mellow the mood
This one’s got high notes

  Four fifty three fifty five fifty

Drum and hum
Echo and flash
Café Jam


A girl now solos
deftly playing her thoughts
loud in a corner
where she finds her place in the mix

  Seven twenty six twenty ten twenty

Jump and slump
Twist and twitch
Café Jam


The lyrics
written fast,
mixed by all --

 No they didn’t
 Say the square root
 Is more than I can
 Outrun if you keep to the inside
 With Jenny? OMG can you
 Play a creature with 4 hp
 When your car breaks down
 cuz I can’t get to sleep

  Two sixty thirty sixty sorry I’ll fix that

Take and bake
Ping and blend
Café Jam

from the new broadside: Cafe Jam