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The Midnight Cruiser

December 18, 2012
By Ben Thompson BRONZE, Boulder, Colorado
Ben Thompson BRONZE, Boulder, Colorado
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I travel in the night,
Looking for the evil within people’s hearts.
I travel in the night,
seeing why people are suffering.
I travel in the night,
every single night,
to see what happens here,
and help people
with terrible problems,
that need to be fixed.
I fix these,
with instruments
that fill peoples hearts with gladness and joy.
I fix these,
with the same instruments
others use to blast ears.
I fix these,
these uncontrollable things,
with the instruments that let me live.
With the instruments that helped my mind.
With the instruments
which I play
take care of
and watch.
When I watch these instruments
being played or protecting them,
they watch me.
For no one can be without the other.
There can only be two.


The author's comments:
I made this piece because I was inspired by a band known as Steely Dan. There song, The Midnight Cruiser, was about a very famous jazz pianist named Thelonious Monk. Hence the first words of the song, "Thelonious, my old friend. Step on in and let me shake your hand."

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