Jazz Poems

FOR OUR LADY

billie if someone

had loved u like u

shud have been loved

ain’t no tellen what

kind of songs

u wud have swung

gainst this country’s wite mind

or what kind of lyrics

wud have pushed us from

our blue / nites

yeh billie

if some blk / man

had reallee

made u feel

permanentlee warm

ain’t no tellen

where the jazz of yo/songs

wud have led us.

SONIA SANCHEZ

from Jazz Poems ~ Selected and Edited by Kevin Young

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