Leon Stacey Poet Free verse

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Dimly lit with staged spotlight 
The beatnik coffee house 
Espresso or moca in every cup 
Black berets and sandals (optional) 
Digging the sounds of be bop  
In dark sunglasses 
Renditions of Miles and Coltrane 
Smoke like dry ice in water 
Dancing and disappearing 
In light in darkness 
Satisfaction and discontentment 
Free love and hopelessness 
Remembering the past 
Thinking of the future 
With neck-or-nothing passion  
In black 
Stepping to the open mike 
A poet appearing 
No applause 
Finger snaps beating claps 
Extempore and reading the script 
Tables nodding and chanting groans 
Finger snaps speeding claps 
Nodding and groaning 
More and more and more 
Oobalee owa. Selah. 
A poet disappearing 
Satisfied and away discontent 
Freely loved and away hopeless 
Remembering the past 
Thinking of the future 
With neck-or-nothing passion 
In black 
Berets and sandals (optional) 
Digging the sounds of be bop 
Stepping to the open mike 
The smoke dancing and disappearing 
Speaking of light into unseen darkness 
Dimly lit with staged spotlight 
At the beatnik coffee house

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