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These poems first appeared in Jerry Jazz Musician 1/27/2023.
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5 Jazz Poems
by John Kendall Hawkins
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I.
from Mahler to Coltrane to hip hop
blues, there's a soul in man that sings
(you don't find that in a machine that thinks
it thinks), the birth of bebop
through Wagner's circus rings --
music is working out our kinks.
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