Best Ella Fitzgerald Poems

Sang like a whippoorwill, up high on a hill
   Played trumpet like Satchmo, with panache and skill
To watch that man tap-dance, gave even...

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Sitting here in my room 
   Listening to Ella Fitzgerald 
(on what would have been her 90th birthday)
Not so bad to be alone
Health...

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He wipes the tables clean
Picks up the dirty wears
Take out the garbage
Stock the fridge with beers

Cleans the bath room
And mops the floors
Sweep outside on the...

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Thank god I finally was caught and cited
for doing something that I didn't do.

Just think how much worse I would feel
if I actually had done...

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A few nights before Christmas
all was quiet in the apartment
except for a few ghosts milling about in it

Before I went to bed 
to rest my...

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BY STREET CRIES

READING BOOKS TO THE SOUNDS OF JAZZ 
ABSORBING TUNES TO A HYPNOTIC PAST

WHERE HORNS ARE BLOWN AND KEYS PLAYED
AT JUST THE RIGHT TONE

ITS...

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My daughter,
with Oppositionally Defiant Chaotic Disorder,
has taught me a role-play therapy,
in which we Both-And build a back-and-forth story,
she plays me,
more or less,
and I play her
Mulatta...

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As I dusted off an old jazz LP
A musical genie appeared to me
With seven notes in his hand
And a  wish for each one
So I...

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Many times when I would here a song, I would get an almost joyful longing, but I could never pinpoint the moment in my past...

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That's not my elephant that you see.
My elephant is skinny and likes to watch TV

He also has a thin spaghetti trunk.
And likes to kneel and...

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When you play a little Marvin Gaye,
And you mix it up with some Tupac.
You throw in a little Whitney and then
You add just a little...

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She turns me around
Forty years ago
At High School graduation
And she says…
Something I can’t remember

It was probably something like,
‘Well, lookit that!’ or
‘Boy, Howdy!’ or
Some such encouragement

And…...

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Sitting here in my room listening  to Ella Fitzgerald (on what would have been her 98th birthday)
Not so bad to be alone 
Health worries...

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That’s not my elephant!
No way, no how.
That elephant’s a bull -
Mine is a cow!

That’s an African elephant;
Everyone can see.
My elephant’s Italian -
Not from the Serengeti.

Don’t...

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Sammy Davis and Ella Fitzgerald, jazz singers
Their b'deed'lee-dip riffs on the Sullivan show didn't linger
   In America's consciousness, and that's really too bad
...

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