Music Theory

Headsmack:

guitar chords, drums,
bass, a vocal, lyrics
smart enough
or stupid enough:
no more, no less.

Mood dependent:

might approve a keyboard,
horn, second vocal,
lead guitar.

Mood adjacent:

get big, get busy
with every polyrhythm
polyamorous for all
other sounds.  Balalaika,
bouzouki, bodhran,
zither, timbale, woodblock.

Mood shifter:

fingers, strings,
no voice.  Let’s hear
ladders, let’s hear ascent
and descent upon
a fretted neck.

If there’s no mood at all

what’s needed,
what comes to mind,
is interstellar space,
travel to
Pure Land on
pure mind:
saxophone chasm Tesseract,
points A and B
peaks in a range,
hurtling all of the in between
in one leap.