The best sound you can find
while playing your guitar:
your slide finally
after brief teasing
landing in the sweet spot,
coaxing forth the note
you want. That resolution
puts a small damper upon
anxiety you sometimes feel
when playing, even when
playing by yourself in
a lonely house: the fear
not so much of being wrong,
but of not doing justice
to the Work.
The best sound you can find
when playing your guitar:
that one note
that tells the entire story
of the Work, includes
every Worker to that point,
assurance that this is
the Work they did too —
and then, the sound disappearing
back into the Work itself,
its last message
catch me if you can,
so you begin again.
