WHAT’S YOUR GROOVE?:

Chris Vatalaro drummed in the cupboard, laying down grooves 
to make a body move & get happy. Everybody laughing, smiling, 
good food & coffee, soul food & gentle rain like mist that 
kissed everyone who stepped out to breath the sweet clean air. 
Now the cupboard is bare, cars scattered in directions, 
train connections met, everyone left, carrying Chris’s energy 
home to destinations unknown, waving as they disappeared into 
the distance. All these memories, captured as patterns, lines 
on flickering screens & numbers, caricatures dancing in the cold 
light of another morning. Slow down, take time out to listen, 
quiet in the hollow, follow the beat, inspiration, no time to 
ponder if the Muse will be waiting, with open arms, smoking a 
cigarette beneath a street light down this road or that, or 
concealing her eyes beneath a different hat to meet another lover?

(K)