January 10, 2014 #smallstones

when a great poet/
griot/spirit passes on –
you can’t just go to bed
at the normal time,
as if nothing special happened,
as if the routine is the same,
the same old routine…

you gotta stay up late,
read his work out loud -
invoke his spirit,
let it come inside your house -
sip some scotch with it,
smoke some weed if you got some,
and take a pause,
and take a pause,
and take a pause…