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Jazz Been Dug
Jazz ain't no thing to understand,
You gotta dig it.
Deep in that Freudian id,
Long past any conceptualized being,
Dig it primal-like.
Like a beating drum,
Vibrating you gut,
And screaming your fear,
Into a rivalry with the wind,
Scraping your feet,
To a dance older than dust,
Dig it hard.
Follow Paradise to Frisco in the 50's,
And roam the midnight bars in madness.
Spin some Parker and Gillespie,
And find cool solace in ethereal dreaming.
Chill out to the sketches of flamenco,
And find Davis in a mild shade of blue.
Calm your thoughts,
And feel it in your teeth,
Because jazz ain't no thing to understand,
You gotta dig it.
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This is a really awesome poem. I play jazz guitar, but I'm not nearly as knowledgable when it comes to the genre as you.
I only noticed one minor thing that you might change: The 5th and 6th stanzas both include "And find...", and I think it would work better if you changed one (putting that line in other stanzas to make it more repetitive could work too, but I like the others too well and they definitely don't need to be altered).
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