Monday Poem

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“I don’t think I ever was a child.”
–Coleman Hawkins, top sax jazzman

Jazzman Said

I don’t think
I ever was a child

Was I a child?
I don’t think so

If I ever was a child
I’d know. …I don’t
even know, Jazzman said,
if a child ever was

Child, Jazzman said,
I don’t just think
I play jazz man.

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Jim Culleny
5/08

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