Inspired & fueled by Coax - Jokers Waltz.

Done as an entry for Poetry Screams Prompt Contest - [link]

Prompt used: The Masks we Wear (obviously).

Ok, first, I want to say that I have a special affection to Coax - while it's not one of my favourite musical projects, my first poem, from which my rhyming quest here began, I wrote being totally inspired by Coax' "Glenk Jakomo" track from the album "The Third Moebius". Yeah, that track inspired me so-o-o much that I repeated it for, like, 10 hours a row. I'm not listening to it now due to a certain bitter feeling which got attached to it but that's another story.

So I was really eager to download and listen (Coax' music is free for download, per nice desicion of its author) fresh albums, and there was this track called "Jokers Waltz" and I think you get the rest.

So this one isn't just fully inspired by Jokers Waltz - it's a lyrics for it. I wouldn't call it 100% song 'cause who's trying to sing under a waltz music? Nah, it's somewhere between fixed poem ('cause each single syllable here follows a single beat of track's main theme and it's done in common 1-2-3 beat so the structure is stiff), spoken word and a song.

I'm not really sure as to how one would perform it - I tried different attitudes and couldn't pick one that's best. I loved overly dramatic one, though, where those second "mask/s I/you/we wear" are almost cried and lines are read in blatant, circus narration-style way.

"Jokers Waltz" is divided on two parts, first with 7 24-beat fragments (you read first 7 sextets for that part) and second with 6 24-beat fragments (you read last six sextets for this part).

Last but not the least: "Jokers Waltz" track can be listened to (and be downloaded for free) here: [link]

Or you can look at it at last.fm - it's also downloadable there.