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11-21-2009
Mae Futter Stein
Very nice words of the 50's lyrics. It is different then what I have been reading. That makes it quite interesting. It is like a story, as well as a great workmanship of true life then.
That's da way it was. Enjoyed it tremendously.
Mae
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11-20-2009
Cynthia Baello
I like the crafty style this was written, and yet I find a deeper sadness and profound message underneath the verses. You have actually written the story/history that gave birth to rhythm and blues, the type of music that accompanied by life's hardships and heartaches, proving that "music hath charms that soothe the savage breast..." Your poem brings back many songs I used to hear as a child and which my father sang from the bathroom, 40's amd early 50's vintage. Thank you for sharing this poema nd I love it da way it is!
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09-28-2007
Frank Fields
Haunting memories of another time, another life, another reality. It probably still lives on today as it did then, for very little in the life of man really changes, regardless of how seeming changing it needs to be. New Orleans, Puerto Rico, some favorite little places in the water and off, close to ocean shore and where da blues is always found. What more to be said? Leave it be, mon, it don wan change. Is good to stand da way it be. Dat is da way it was, da way it is, an dat will be da way it stay.
Someday perhaps, some chapters will fully close, but perhaps they weren't meant to. Leave enough of what was to give the present its full meaning.
At least as long as there are those who have the courage to tell it like it was.
Frank :)
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