To Diz

To Diz

To Diz,

You are someone I've never met. 

Hello.

Yet, I know you... from

the books, movies, videos - 

your playing cascades through my

life, your history, your tales, your

speech enlivens all of our lives and

the way you walked - as I can imagine -

it just brought life, be bopping around

two and four and one e and a bam - 

You are someone I've never met,

yet we are close like family - a 

family of be bopping and scoo dap e dop. 

A sketch of Arturo Sandoval