STOPPING THIS DAY

In a real situation
stopping this day
at Greenwich village
mean time
as a bully
tries to mummify
me at my gig
as I start to play tenor sax
and am up with my riffs
as he starts to put me down
still trying to keep score
in a war of skilled words
but under my breath
speak in tongues
as brother Adrian
taught us in Brazil
that even in a jazz club
we are in God's house.