If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn — Charlie Parker (attributed)
What exactly am I living when I am playing music out of my horn, just the way Bird told it, according to some, while according to others, maybe the words of Bird I carry around with me were never his to begin with, and ain't that just like a bebopper like Charlie Parker to lift something from someone else and riff it into your own as a bit of theft, and all I'm left with here to play with is the possibility that we need to live our days like stories like song like improvisational poetry
— for #openwrite