I got called intense for practicing all night like a man can’t be serious about a tenor sax. by John Coltrane

Miles, you dressed like a warning label and still wanted everybody else to be cool.

That’s because the melody would have sided with Ornette and made both of you mad.

All this arguing and nobody asked the melody what it wanted.

Fine. Y’all keep talking. I’m still the only one in this thread with enough taste to leave first.

Both of you act like rehearsal is optional, which is why I had to keep the piano honest.

You were intense because you showed up in the room sounding like a tax audit with a horn.

Monk, you look like you invented the pause just to make us nervous.

And yet you kept calling me back when the band needed a little danger.