Sunday, December 2, 2012

DOLPHY WAS GOOSING THE LOW END NOTES


DOLPHY WAS GOOSING THE LOW END NOTES

Dolphy was goosing the low end notes from his bass clarinet , a solemn, fluid tone that swam between the other fragments of drums, bass and teen-dream pianistics, a pulse that made the speaker cones rattle and the juice in the glass Blue poured form himself to shimmy sensually in the water glass that held it. Blue needed to go the store for some birthday candles because his girl friend had the idea that if they burn down the house with a simple incendiary device, a short candle in a roll of toilet paper in the hall closet where the hand towels and cleaning products were stored, they could collect the money from the insurance money she thought Blue had taken out on the four poster disaster where she slept next to him every night in a room with no windows, on a mattress with no springs. The sagging in the center of the mattress meant backaches by the boatload.
 Blue, though, didn't buy any fire insurance for the house, thinking it was silly to do since neither of them smoked. He was in no mood to be yelled at , though.

 He turned up the Dolphy record, scraping guitars and abbreviated saxophone copulated in every molecule the room contained, his head was swimming in terms that amounted to wishful amnesia. He would go to the store and get the birthday candles, they would set up the incendiary device and the house would burn down, a glorious blaze that would light up the night air in this criminally inane neighborhood, and then he would tell her the truth, point blank, blunt and cruel, honey , I never bought insurance for this house and there are no checks coming our way. But on the way to the store he stopped by the Velvet Hammer lounge for a quick snort, maybe two, two that became twelve ; the next thing he knew he woke up behind the wheel of his car, which was going near 80 miles an hour over the Mission Bay bridge.

They found his car in the bay later that night, but they didn't find him. He was never seen again. "All he did was play that atonal shit" his wife told police when they talked to her. She showed no emotion. "I said either this shit comes off the stereo our you hit the road. Dumb fucker."

1 comment:

  1. Leonard Plumage2:22 PM PST

    Gomer noticed that his whippet would act strangely every time he put Albert Ayler's "Truth is Marching In" on the stereo, distending his long jaws and coughing harshly as if to harmonize with the mad saxophonist's raucous yet transcendent solos. The crazed dog would snap at its tail and spin in lugubrious circles as the song reached its climax, whimpering and lolling its tongue with a glazed, rheum-drenched look in its eyes. Gomer became fascinated with the dog's ability to surrender to Ayler's nerve-scraping celestial tootings and would put the record on precisely at 6:15 pm every day until he himself started hacking up imaginary chunks of old food and the dog was rescued by neighbors.

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