E.D. Hill,

 

you are absolutely smoking today - just ravishing, my dear!

 

that Mr. Hill is one lucky dude!

 

i hope he has some Stag's Leap Sauvingon Blanc or Cakebread Cellars Sauvingon Blanc w/ some nice cheese, fresh figs and berries and a baguette tonight and massages your feet and calves - as you work so hard - and look so damn good!

 

it makes it more of a difficult decision as to which Fox & Friends crew i send a nice little Pittsburgh care package w/ a #66 Mario Lemuiex jersey, etc.  in it!

 

sincerely.

best intent,

john french

sewickley, pa

 

I Played Bass for Thelonious Monk

 

My breath like heavy

                                strings

I could not sing

   but groove to the

                                song

    No right or wrong

 

We just play - Play

inside the mid summer

                      air and sun

 

Blowing w/ leaves and

  wrappers from gum

 

We play uptown, downtown

          - all round -

w/ money - w/ none -

 

     We got it all

 

Through Pittsburgh, Cleveland,

New Orleans to Santa Fe,

L.A., and back to NYC

for a gig or three

 

- Don't tell me, motherfucker,

 

I played until 3:00 a.m.

 

    Five days a week

 

                  For 27 days

 

    Straight

               w/ no chasers.

 

We played for chicken

           & gin

For women & grins

  For with and in joints

To Thelonious was hummin'

                along

                       & along

 

 

John Alan Conte` JR

mystrawhat.com

August 17, 2005