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Jazz singer

from Interesting Times by mike skliar

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Dedicated to Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughn, Ella Fitzgerald, and the thousands of jazz, blues, folk and roots singers, known and unknown, who persevered against impossible odds for themselves and their art.

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Every jazz singer in this worn out nation
who faced down the blues with a laugh
whose reality was punctured by poverty and privation
should have a bold bright epitaph
for it isn't a diamond that cuts thru defenses
revealing that healing of the soul
its phrasing and timing that heighens the senses
and keeps us from feeling old
and lets the spirits that live in us be bold

the swing of a bass, the touch of a snare
finds freedom overpowers oppression
you can leave all your bleeps and blips right there
no answers given, just asking questions
for the missing pieces of your heart are the shape
of the f holes in that old jazz guitar
by hungry ears heard, or on magnetic tape
shining bright as a blazing hot star
an old friend that finds yoyu down at the end of the bar

(c) M. Skliar 2022

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from Interesting Times, released March 4, 2022

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