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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000018.txt from 2005/09

From: Oboeeee@-----.com
Subj: [DR-L] Quote of the Day...A Tribute
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 20:42:58 -0400


THE BLUESMAN

He needs blues like an alcoholic needing poison that only makes him feel=20
worse

It fills his body with life while he=E2=80=99s lying in the gutter, faceles=
s=20
expression, emotions high

The thrill is gone its there no more, his life is at a end but blues keeps=20
him there

How long he will last, how long will the music play, this is the bluesman's=
=20
day...

-Oliver Brookshore (1990) American poet
unpublished (to date)

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