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Forgetting Home (or how can I forget you if you won't go away)

by J. Otis Powell‽ (with interrobang)

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Photo credit: Kenn Thomas

Forgetting Home (or how can I forget you if you won't go away)  

Euphemisms white wash his-story

So truth disappears under vague denial

Southeast USA above Florida

Sharing a border with Pensacola

Where the past lives on 

In retrospective theme parks

The past is alive everywhere

Our world is full of museums

Memories gather into congregations

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Wednesday 22nd January 2014 11:50 pm

Alabama   Bombingham   Coltrane   Jr.   MLK   Sixteenth Street Baptist Church

ImproviXation #107

by J. Otis Powell‽ (with interrobang)

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ImproviXation #107 

Some days I wish I could bend my knees

Lean backwards and wail like a saxophonist

But I know anyone within earshot

Would hear that wrong

There are days

I feel like screaming

But I don’t dare

I’m afraid of what the

Vibrations might cause

On days like that I like to clamp on headphones

Crank up volume on John Coltrane

Archie Shepp

Alb...

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Thursday 26th September 2013 4:55 pm

Ayler   Carter   Coltrane   Emel Sherzad   ImproviXing Change   Marsalis   Murray   saxophones   Shepp   wailing

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