A rainstick
Takes its time
To shower seeds
Along its spine
I wish I’d given
Ample cause
To justify
Its warm applause
All I did:
Rotate its axis
Pity I can’t
Apply the practice
To all those people
Who don’t know
How cool I am
How great my show
How wise my words
How slick my moves
How bright my strings
How funk my grooves
So I play a song
And say a rhyme
And turn the rainstick
One more time.
(What’s
a rainstick? A percussion instrument, a hollow tube containing hundreds
of seeds which slowly shhhhhhh from one end to the other when turned
over.)
Norman Lamont 9/11/07