Dr. Dub says  "It was inspired by a thought my percussion teacher had in class".

 


 

Acceleration defeats friction

(Para los Rumberos Amorosos)

 

(For my teacher, Angel Luis Figueroa)

 

 

Accelerated rhythm eradicates all friction

All references are lost and possibly never again recovered

 

As the hand barely makes contact with the pulsating skin

All subdivisions of time now have no meaning

 in this fractionless state of things

 

You cannot partition in this frantic flow of metrical emotion

You can only hang tight

hoping you won’t begin to slide and slip into the cracks far below

Where multiple layers of earthquaking tonal lava           

passionately coast past each other

                                                     perfectly and studiously aligned

 

In the darkest depths of rumba

an arithmurgy of love is born

Where the most intricate topologies of spirits

tangle up together to give birth

To orgasmic bursts of color that climax

Into forms of awareness                       

                                      my mortal mind has hardly ever known