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New Orleans #12

Grant Guy·March 3, 2018

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New Orleans #12

written by: Grant Guy

What is
What is
I ask what is

Sometimes it lifts us up
Sending us beyond beyond the stellar regions
Right Trane
Allows our human spirit unite with time & the ether
Allows us Allows our spirit to live standing up

Sometimes there are other times other times
It marches madder than hell down Main Street
It is impatient I tell you it is impatient
& it is angry yes CM
Welding the concrete to our blood
Welds us to life as is & could be
Urban folk music

It tells us we must continue on
To battle on with all we are worth
To battle on

Sometimes yes it takes up to the mountain
& sometimes
& sometimes

It says there is work to be done
Down here in the valley
Because it believes in the beauty of human creation

What is
What is
I ask what is jazz

NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR:

My origins in art derive from theatre. Theatre is a story telling medium of the human condition. It may be hyper realism or absurd but it is of stories of the human experience. As my career moved from playwriting to prose and poetry I remain committed to the human experience.

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Grant Guy

Grant Guy is a Winnipeg, Canada, theatremaker and poet. He has 6 books published, only 4 he will talk about: Open Fragments, Bus Stop Bus Stop (a collection of stories based on my experience of transcontinental bus travel), Blues For A Mustang (A collection of poems) and The Life And Lies Of Calamity Jane (a novella) do not reflect the previous work. He had many poems and short stories published online and as hard copy. He was the 2004 recipient of the Manitoba Arts Council’s Award of Distinction and the 2015 Winnipeg Arts Council’ Making A Difference Reward. His visual poetry has been included in group shows in New York, Dayton, France, Spain, Italy and Brazil.

Lou Storey

A textbook example of nominative determinism, Lou Storey has always been a storyteller, a fact well illustrated in his art and in his writing. His careers have reflected that as well, first as a creator of idea-based exhibitions for museums, and later as a psychotherapist employing narrative therapies. His art and his writing share qualities of rich texture and detail, examining our capacity to be absurd while allowing a measure of forgiveness for our foibles. Storey and his husband Steve retired in 2021 and moved from New Jersey to Savannah Georgia. “We love everything about Savannah, it is like a city that looks like a park and thinks it’s a small town. Best of all, we can grow bananas in the backyard!”

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startle their jumpy heartbeats as they walk.
Shadows discreetly follow the echoes
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as their eyes focus on the cracked pavement.

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many follow in their hesitant footsteps,
eager to reach doors and push doorbells
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