[peom] 'like a girl saying yes'

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by Sebastian Matthews


is the way Condon
put ithearing Bix’s coronet
for the first timea mellow tone
lofted gently from the bell
of the horn
like a girl saying yes
or as Louis said
followed (no doubt)
by his cackle laugh
“I’m tellin’ you
those pretty notes
went right thru me”