the last minutes of the Titanic
...the band leader motioned for the men to keep playing
They were not getting off alive, but they could go down with music
confusion and yelling was heard from all sides of the deck
cowardly men were...
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Categories:
bandleader, heaven,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Last Song For My Resting Place
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A bit of history, first . . . .
This song is about the sinking of the Titanic, it sank into the North Atlantic
Ocean on April 14-15, 1912, after striking an iceberg. Of 2240 pass...
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Categories:
bandleader, tribute,
Form: Rispetto
New Year's Eve 2022
...New Year's Eve 2022
Yours truly riddled with social anxiety,
hence (billy me) he will idle away
December 31st, 2022
sequestered (with the missus)
hunkered down in his mancave
while madding ...
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Categories:
bandleader, adventure, celebration, dance, december,
Form: Free verse
New Year's Eve 2021
...New Year's Eve 2021
December thirty first
two thousand twenty one countdown
will transparently and seamlessly stream into
simultaneously linkedin January first
two thousand and twenty two,
wh...
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Categories:
bandleader, adventure, culture, dance, humanity,
Form: Free verse
No Bigger Than a Baritone Horn - Part Ii
...Minimal involvement with extracurricular activity at Methacton
limited to playing Baritone Horny within the band
though marginal interest existed to maintain constancy
feigning noteworthy i...
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Categories:
bandleader, age, angst, anxiety, character,
Form: Free verse
Marching Band
...Almost four-o-clock in the afternoon
and not a single tambourine in sight
you should have jumped over the moon
hours ago, until
secret alien creatures on the surface
said the autopsy was inconclusi...
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Categories:
bandleader, lost love
Form: Free verse