La French Wench

"Whoever you are -- I have always depended on the kindness of strangers." -- Blanche speaking to whoever you are * * * Ladies and Gentlemen Callers! Tonight for your listening pleasure -- Madame Goddam! "Jazz Street" Before you leave New Orlins see Belle Rive beyond the outskirts of the city heat Hop any streetcar's hot jazz up its sleeve and jump off when you feel it skip a beat -- With your addiction hard for somethin' sweet a scent of parlor flowers is your guide along a narrow trail of muddied feet up leadin' to that big bad bloodied slide -- If ain't a body ever to you lied skip on ahead with all them many few to where a thing there lyin' on its side your mama and your daddy always knew -- And when that clock of yours won't wheel on back -- beg that ol' thing not on your -- cut -- throat -- snack * * * a dedication of Respect for the Pain of the manifold mad a revolving helios sonnet spenserian satire menippean on the kindness of strangers march, 2023 -- the gift of life, yet a product not able to be recalled . . . feetnote The Malady to "Jazz Street" The Quatrains C3 D3# F3 G3 G3 G3 C4 G3 G3 G3 C3 D3# F3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 F3 F3 B2 D3 D3# F3 F3 F3 F3 F3 D3 F3 B2 D3 D3# F3 F3 D3# D3 D3 C3 C3 The Couplet B2 D3 D3# F3 F3 F3 F3 F3 D3 F3 B2 D3 D3# F3 F3 D3# D3 C3 C3 C3 The Couplet Repeated/The Final Line's Variation B2 D3 D3# F3 F3 F3 F3 F3 D3 F3 G3 F4 D4# D4 F3 D3# D3 C3 C3 C3