Jazz Poems

FOR ERIC DOLPHY

on flute

spinning    spinning    spinning

love

thru / out

the universe

i

know

exactly

whut chew mean

man

you like

titter

my sister

who never expressed LOVE

in words (like the white folks always       d

she would sit in the corner                      o

and cry                                                   i

everytime                                               n

I                                                             g

got a whuppin

Etheridge Knight

from Jazz Poems ~ Selected and Edited by Kevin Young

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