
Jazz — A Poem in swung-note rhythm
Short and sweet, you’ll feet the heat.
Music made mad
played as sweetly hot
as blasts of piping Greek coffee
necromantic lips kiss cold metal
bringing life to dead instruments
kickstarting the krakatoa of adrenalin
musical metallurgists cup molten brass
shouts barked between notes
the quiet undertone of guitar strings
the thundered rumple of percussion
braincells gutted in the afterglow of thought cast out
purged with the pleasing lobotomy
of white hot jazz —
if sex could sing
it would swing like this.
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