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“Do I dare ask him for what I want, As if I knew it, Could find it on some page In some chapter In some book?”

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“Four laughs vibrate in harmony, Warm Delicious Real.”

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“Thank God there are places with sounds that make me cry from beauty, not from pain.”

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“I play the music of Steven for Steven; ragged, helpless, it owns me, enveloping me with an incomprehensible love -”

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“Let's give our slave a big dream. A big future.”

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“I calculate the breadth of Steven's shoulders, now wider than mine; watch him tear open the Blokus game he likes to play with me after school; count the hours between now and Dad coming home to take over and I am only a little afraid of the night.”

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“The dusty library air is electric with secrets/ almost palpable in the thick quiet that bounces between/ Cal and those books and me”

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“It is strange to hear my words Read back to me. I don't think I wrote them To have them ever leave the page. I think I only write What happens across my brain When my feet are too weary To dance anymore.”

Writing Dance Words

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“There are more guys than girls in jazz. Next-to-no lady trumpeters (oh, there are a few) but it doesn't matter because, for me, jazz trumpet is all about one guy Miles Davis. He made this famous album in 1959 called Kind of Blue which is kind of, always, how I feel. That album gets into your bones goes and goes starts, hesitates, reaches out, feels for the music, the sound, the thing you want to change. Always grasping for the unattainable makes you kind of excited, kind of sorry.”

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“I feel his arm Lightly Over me. He takes one of my outstretched hands. Draws it beneath my stomach. "One more time..." This is not sex, Not friendship. Something Strange Special In the stillness of his breath, The waterlike way he moves. He is making a dance. We are making a dance.”

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“I've a long time trying to love a brother whose only way of touching me is pain. A long time escaping into music. Practice, lessons, rehearsals that protect me from the hurting parts of life. I've been winning awards, applause, acclaim for my trumpets since I was in grade school. But love? The word catches in my throat. Do I love anything? Have i forgotten how?”

Love Hurt Confusion

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