Internal Music

John Cage liked
external sounds
and I do, too,
but he didn't particularly like
internal music
and for a long time
I didn't either,
because my head
was playing
a jerky blues guitar solo
that jumbled up
my head
and things like
Mozart's Requiem
that made me think
I was going to die,
so I got in there
and worked on
my music inside
and now
it doesn't bother me so much
and some of it
is actually

just right.