Sunday, November 18, 2018

You may Be


You may Be
but did you bop
did you scream
like Dizzy
like Miles;
Did you growl
on the keys
like Thelonious Monk

Did you warble
did you scat
did you Howl
like Allen Ginsberg;
Were you a Beat
on the street
on the road
like Jack Kerouac

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November 18, 2018
You may Be

about Jazz, Bebop, Beat poetry, Allen Ginsberg,
Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, and Dizzy Gillespie,
who I saw perform at UNH with my parents
Parent’s Weekend, either 1979 or 1980.
&
edited November 18, 2018
Mood Indigo – v2
November 16, 2018
Mood Indigo
May 1993
Mood Indigo
by Willie Humphrey
(93 years old in 1993)
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Preservation Hall
&
edited November 16, 2018
Nice Tie – v2
8/7/04 18:05
Nice Tie
partially non-verbal conversation with Richard Payne
of Preservation Hall Jazz Band
at Preservation Hall Jazz Band club
726 St. Peters Street
New Orleans, LA
He was the bass player for the band and
he was the bass player in
“Toots Sweet’s Band” in the movie
Angel Heart (1987).
I gave him my tie, right off my neck
(a tie I had bought from a pushcart at
Downtown Crossing in Boston).
&
edited April 27, 2015
Congo Square – v3
(editing version 2)
edited November 4, 2018
Amazing Grace – v3
(editing original again)
edited April 16, 2015
Amazing Grace – v2
July 12, 2004 18:56 –
Amazing Grace
Amazing Grace solo of Aaron Neville
at the 1993 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival
during a real wedding.
The members of Los Lobos were near me, watching as I was.
I saw the wedding couple riding in a carriage
in the French Quarter that night.
&
edited April 13, 2015
Congo Square – v2
July 12, 2004 19:15.
Congo Square
Congo Square, special area at the
1993 Jazz and Heritage Festival, New Orleans
&
Edited December 6, 2013
Night in New Orleans – v4
(editing original version)
Edited December 5, 2013
Night in New Orleans – v3
Edited September 20, 2012
“Night in New Orleans – v2”
Sunday, July 15, 2001 at 6:22:58 PM EST
edited December 6, 2001
“Night in New Orleans
mostly about trip to New Orleans for Jazz and Heritage Festival, 1993
and again for job interview at Tulane University 1996
&
edited April 16, 2015
A Beat in Concord – v7
(editing version 4)
Edited October 19, 2013
“A Beat in Concord – v6”
Edited July 2, 2013
“A Beat in Concord – v5”
based on original version
further edits June 30, 2012
A Beat in Concord – v4
(turning the poem to the present tense)
further edits June 30, 2012
A Beat in Concord – v3
further edited June 6, 2012 (with edited by Elisha and Marshall Burns)
A Beat in Concord – v2 - 2
edited June 6, 2012
A Beat in Concord – v2
written May 18, 2006 5:59pm
A Beat in Concord
written about someone I saw under the Exit 14 underpass, Concord, NH

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