Lady Jazz
Lady Jazz
Lay the jazz at my feet
Lay your feet at my jazz
Lay my hat at the feet of the has to
Next to the has you
Next to the razzamatazz
Jazz in you
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Posted by Jesus Crisis at 4/4/2010 6:32 AM 
Categories: Cleveland, Music, Poetry by JC
Tags: Cleveland Poetry Bob Fraser Ki Allen Lady Jazz
Categories: Cleveland, Music, Poetry by JC
Tags: Cleveland Poetry Bob Fraser Ki Allen Lady Jazz
I really love her interpretation of "I concentrate on you." It is one of my all time favorites.
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Ah, yes...
I should note that I've revised the last two lines in the poem slightly since I first posted it a few hours ago.
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The pre-revision version follows:
Lay the jazz at my feet
Lay your feet at my jazz
Lay my hat at the feet of the has to
Next to the has you
Next to the razzamatazz jazz
Next to you
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sounds like a love poem.
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I don't write too many of those. Then again, either Dave Smith, John Dorsey or both told me he/they thought every poem is a love poem of sorts. I kinda agree....
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I would have written it this way:
Lay de jazz at my feet because Lay de sounds like Lady and also sounds more jazzy. Also that was the way you wrote it on the handbill when you were listening to her. Yeah it is lovely and written with love.
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Steve, like you I think My Space is and was more creative and less prone to silly and trite comments than Facebook. Your wonderful photos and poems are on My Space and not on Facebook. Also I might add that I have been "de-friended" for no reason on FB and so have some of John's friends. The poetry is in "notes" on Facebook and there is no way to be creative in these notes except to add a photo. So I usually leave comments on John's Crisis Chronicles and I see you do also. I never use the apps or the games on FB and find constant poetry cluttering up everyone's profile, sometimes two or three from the same person every day. Do they actually think we have the time to read all of this crap?
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I changed it from the cute "Lay de" to the less obvious "Lay the" because after I wrote it I realized the former could be taken as an imitation of an old slave colloquiallism -- I wanted to amplify the beauty without taking a chance on appearing insulting, because certainly no insult was intended. "Lay the" pronounced as "Lay thee" instead of "Lay thuh" alludes to a lady plenty. No need to overdo it....
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There is actually a great deal of good poetry in Facebook notes. You can even post art in Facebook notes in the same way many do on MySpace - though you are limited to simpler HTML. You're friends with maybe 70 poets on Facebook, Elena. I'm friends with 3,000 - many of them VERY good. Certainly not all of the 2,900 you don't know are as bad as you're characterizing them without knowing them.
No one defriends anyone for "no reason." Maybe for no good reason... maybe what wasn't a good reason to you was to them. All of that has nothing to do with my blog, however; and this probably isn't the best place to talk about it. Maybe if you ask them why they defriended you they'll tell you. Who knows?
The following is said partly in jest, but.... Maybe they don't want to be friends because you go all over the internet calling their poetry clutter and "all that crap," as you did above. Generally I find it a good policy to praise publicly and constructively criticize privately.
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Then again, I've had several friends wonder if I'd deleted them from my Facebook friends, when I definitely had not. Seems FB has been a lot of glitches like that during their recent upgrades....
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I think your reasons for changing "lay de" to "lay thee" are sound ones. I hear the difference.. and would agree it could be construed in a way you might not have intended.
I've never heard KI Allen.. so don't know how she inspired this... but I get the jazz connotation from it. And like it. Hope you do have time to do something more with it someday.
As far as the "friend- de-friend" thing on Fb.. it happens there as it does in real life. I've had people "de-friend" me in real life as well. And as you say finding out from them why is probably the thing to do... if it's possible.
The poetry thing on Fb... is interesting. I like that people post it there as they still do on MySpace... but the quality varies both places. But that is because the ability level of the people who post varies as well. And I can assume people don't post everything on Fb... they have to submit it somewhere.
anyway... nice that you find treasures as well as trash while your moving things John.
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I agree that there are some really wonderful poets on Facebook and I didn't mean to criticize or hurt anyone's feelings. In fact when I think about what I said it was meant to compare My Space with Facebook realizing that Steve Smith is only on My Space and that is where I see his work and, of course, here on Crisis Chronicles. We all criticize Facebook for many separate reasons. I guess I should learn that if you can't say something nice say nothing at all.
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Steve is on Facebook now too... not just MySpace...
And FB has lots to complain about.. mostly if something is not running right... which often happens.
I think as John said, it depends on who you are connected to. The more people you are connected to the more varied poetry you see there.
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