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Jazz Poetry - "Copacetic Mingus"
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Riffs on Jazz by John Anderson
Copacetic Mingus by Yusef Komunyakaa “Mingus One, Two and Three. Which is the image you want the world to see?" —Charles Mingus, Beneath the Underdog Heartstring. Blessed wood & every moment the thing's made of: ball of fatbacklicked by fingers of fire. Hard love, it's hard love. Running big hands down the upright's wide hips, rocking his moon-eyed mistress with gold in her teeth. Art & life bleed into each other as he works the bow. But tonight we're both ...
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