Wisdoms

(Verse 6)

1. He who laughs boldly in face
   of opposition laughs heartily, true
   and oh-so real.
    
2. To be without wit
   in a “shit”uation when the crowd
   is full of it
   is not necessarily a bad thing.
   But never are you witless.
    
3. Jazz cadenza solos are a mime’s soliloquy
   a blind man’s Braille
   and a deaf man’s signings -
   evoking the true of what’s-really-goin’-on.
   Sometimes jazz may as well be Ebonics
   to the white man.
    
4. Birds in song doth love the Spring
   as
   audiences in symphony halls
   don tranquility serene as the classical song,
   and all are The Creator‘s.
    
5. Whoever said,
   “I doth my cap to you sir.
   You, sir, have moxie.”
   What a nice line.
    
6. There are good works,
   there are bad works;
   rarely in-between works --
   and most times
   quality supercedes quantity.
    
7. Bad jazz is like a windy Summer day with the stink
   of a paper mill in the breeze; though good
   or bad ‘tis the only true and real Americana,
   solely and soulfully speaking.

Copyright © 2005 Jacquii Cooke