Drum 'N' Bass

by Ned Vizzini

Anyone who plays music
Will tell you that their influences are better than them
And so if we trust our favorite musicians
They should not be our favorite musicians
But should be considered inferior
To the ones before
The more beautiful

If these musicians
Consider the ones before them more beautiful
Then the musicians get better as they climb into each other's wombs

And the music that is greatest
Is the first music

Which would make it drum 'n' bass


© Ned Vizzini 2007

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Ned Vizzini is the author of It's Kind of a Funny Story ("insightful and utterly authentic" -- New York Times Book Review ), Be More Chill, and Teen Angst? Naaah.... His work has been honored by the American Library Association, BookSense, and the New York Public Library and has been translated into five languages (forthcoming in Chinese). He lives in Brooklyn, NY.