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
==================
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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