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STREET MUSICIAN<br />
By John Grey<br />
He plays some kind of<br />
distorted jazz<br />
on a saxophone<br />
dressed in a greasy gray t-shirt<br />
and baggy pants tied with string.<br />
A battered upturned cap<br />
sits on the sidewalk<br />
begging for coins.<br />
He fills the air<br />
with whatever notes<br />
his breath can blow<br />
and fingers corral<br />
as they clamp down on the buttons.<br />
Few stop to listen<br />
though an occasional passerby<br />
tosses loose change his way.<br />
On a busy shopping street,<br />
he’s the only one making art.<br />
He’s not the whole story.<br />
But he’s the only one telling it.<br />
Author bio: John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident. Recently published in<br />
Homestead Review, Cape Rock and Columbia Review with work upcoming in<br />
Louisiana Review, Poem and Spoon River Poetry Review.
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