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Rhythm Shoes
Broken blues
Wooden floors
Blackened halls
Five notes
Minor stairs
Strings and wood
Fred Astaire.
Fret board
Dancing
Fender,
Gibson
Debonair.
Octave jumping
Big band
Bouncing
It’s Jazz, man!
Climbing Chords
Inverted forms
Progression lords
Marshal stack
Leads unraveled
Fold back.
High hats
Brass cats
Tactical hits
Discordance
Rhyming scat;
this and that.
Bass walking
like it’s a living thing.
water on a tin roof.
Eclectic,
smooth and hectic.
It’s jazz, man!
©Rod Lampard, 2018
