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#101
"bluehawk?
for wallace lester
late one night
in the early "60s
between sets
at the village vanguard
charles mingus
was holding forth
on the current struggle
for black liberation
& making a lot
of noise
when monk walked up,
stood there & listened,
then shook his head
& said to
charlie,
"goddamn, mingus,
I never knew
you was black!"
amsterdam
january
7, 2004
from
thelonious: a book of monk
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