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Poetry of Issue 10: DOES IT MATTER?

DOES IT MATTER?

does it matter if the song
playing in my head is “All Blues”?
what if you’ve never heard that song
never even heard of it
or if you did you have confused its title with “So What”?
is it important to know both songs
appear on Kind of Blue, a 1959 release
recorded by Miles Davis and the sextet
including John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, and Bill Evans?
you can’t hear the song playing in my head
not by reading this poem that’s for sure
so it happens the song I hear is jazz
does that matter?
jazz, a type of music, classification
what do you call this type of poetry,
why is that important?

Chuck Joy

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