Hear me read “Mingus”, scroll to below the music selections.
Original DDE™ digital abstract: “Mingus” — by: rob kistner © 12/5/23
Song of inspiration is “Goodbye Porkpie Hat”, a Mingus jazz composition.
Hey man
ya’eva feel the hit-bottom bass
of my spruce-wooden upright
while’ya
weep’n with the wound steel
strung ‘cross the sound holes
of this here
righteous holla’body
ya’eva
ache to d’blues-bent reed
of a lush broke-heart sax
ya’eva
burn to the brush’s sear
d’sizzle’n’spank o’da’taut-skin snare
ya’eva
sob to the surrender’n’sustain
of an ivory key’d ebony
d’ya know me
man
I’m jazz
I’m blues
hear me
Original DDE™ surrealistic art: “Rainin’ Jazz”<
by: rob kistner © 12/6/23
I’m the velvet touch
on the supple-strung
big-bottomed
long-necked lady
with the smooth
sweet curves
of a fine-ass dame
hot’n fresh
all aflame
warm and mellow
smokey golden
as a ‘52 big apple sunset
fully sussed
in jazzin’ lust
I’m celebration n’sorrow
tears n’understandin’
pain n’escape
I’m
razor’s edge real
with a soul o’steel
taunt me true
in a fiery flurry
of rhythmic dissonance
of sizzling
scalded jazz
lift the veils
from off my eyes
free me from these
tempo’d lies
Original DDE™ surrealistic diptych: “Whiskey Joint Waltz”
by: rob kistner © 12/6/23
wrap round me
with soft studied fingers
in free-form
coax me started
work me in the shadows
at the light’s blur edge
that pools in the night
in a wounded whiskey joint
on the bleak back streets
of the sad brokenhearted
I play to the anguish
of the loveless who cower
in the dark nightmare alleys
of the lost n’forgotten
I play to the grief
of the sinners who moan
alone in their heartbreak
in the ruins of love
I play my dirge
fo’ the busted dreamers
fo’ the butt-broke schemers
n’fo’too
the voiceless
frightn’d
screamers
I play to the last chance
of those loosin’ hope
hey man
hey
ya’eva needin’
I too play — f’giveness
Original DDE™ surrealistic art: “Thunderbox”
by: rob kistner © 12/6/23
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rob kistner © 2022
revised © 2023
Poetry at: dVerse
~ Joni sings her observations about, and affection for Charles ~
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