Rodney Speed (Wetlands, CBGB) has passed away; wake and funeral in NYC this Wednesday (Brooklyn Vegan)

Remembering Rodney Speed (Reix, January 15, 2016)

A Poem for the Fighters
In this dark night
of long winter,
raise your fist
like Camus' Rebel
and scream,
"You cannot have me!
Not today!
Carlos' Don Juan
warned me of you;
that you are just behind
my shoulder,
but I make the choice
to stay and fight!
I make the choice
to be the tone of the universe!
And I'll make the choice
to go into the music
when the overtone series
insists I am too high for this world.

A. Thomason 1-14-16

Sketch by Karl Ottersberg