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A list:

Jazz revivalist

Jazz age writers

The lost generation

O.V. Wright saying

he can’t take it

Back then

2010

Back then

remember when

remember when

it was innovative

to find the ways to

miss someone

like “the rain sure sounds like you

the rain on my windowpane”

Past the age

when the unknown was cool

but goddamnit

don’t you feel

cool

wearing all black in the South

A beat

beat

a beat

Blind drunk on Tuesday

stoned on Monday

getting confused

namedropping John Lee Hooker

So what are you doing

have a few

up to three

a little after two

and you’re staring me dead

eyed with the tv on mute

but no not you

digital tombs

humid waves

another thing to make you sleep

There’s a mouthfeel of

tattoo and Vaseline

three out of five

enough winding

Afraid to go to bed

afraid to move

Bug bites

Open arms

Lost my dancin’

moves

Hot at two

Phone’s dead

Telegram dead

Something in the teeth

Black knuckles

The photographer

stays up til quarter to three

and so proud of those

collections of neon guts

Sorry to bother you

that’s trying

sorry to bother you

well it’s late enough

replaced the kaleidoscopes

with chess pieces

a beat

a breath

moving slowly

slowly

slowly

new names what’s it to you