Jazz Invincible
The entire mode of jazz expression
Perhaps informed by one progression:
One, four five: or
Blues-cum-jive
Upbeat, down, the mood, the beat,
The sound encompassing the heat,
The call, the all of swingng,
Playing, singing…
Even dancing while romancing.
Listening to jazz
In any meter, and/or pace
Is more uplifting
Than the swallowing or sniffing
Of all, any drug.
Myself, I want to hug my husband,
Practice more,
Make my ears, eyes, mouth my score:
(music score, of course)
The source of it, inside myself
I cannot trace,
My boyfriend played the saxophone.
I thirteen, much alone
(my parents owned a hair salon)
He told me about Symphony Sid.
I started listening in bed.
I was, way ‘fore George Shearing
On hearing ‘Jumping With…’
I wrote the first song heralding
The great recording by Fitzgerald.
(Ella, fellas)
I was hooked, and have been since.
Jazz invincible,
My middle name,
The frame and aim.
Jazz Invincible 5.24.2022 Vaguely About Music II; Arlene Nover Corwin
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