We literary people, even the smartest among us sometimes
need our convenient caricatures
reclusive Emily, expansive Walt
Baudelaire the flâneur
casual Frank O'Hara, abstruse Ashbery
cool Miles, eccentric, dissonant Thelonious
But in Monk's music there is a universe of music
vast territories of mood, texture, color
childlike simplicity and recondite complications
or at the very least a small country it would be nice to visit
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