i fire up the laptop, turn on the TV & scroll the channels
the slots for Turner Classic Movies say
MOVIE
& nothing else
of course i click my remote to TCM
i like a good little mystery
the MOVIE is a collection of music performances
from the late 1960s
a few performers i recognize
some i don't know
i think i know what film this is
it hits me
the movie is the great docu
on the Monterey Pop Festival 1967
i'm as old as these performances
or is that the other way round?
who cares because when the soul
is exposed to this performance
of janis joplin singing 'ball & chain'
i am humbled by how the whole
of the human heart can be expressed
in song & i am confirmed in its presence