The poetic city: “Celebrating the Birth of Jazz 8/1/19”

Jan 06, 2020 • Creative Writing

Near New Iberia, LA, 1938 (Photo: Library of Congress; pubic domain)

Celebrating the Birth of Jazz 8/1/19

When the Angels of Possibility

Prevailed upon the Lord of the Cosmos

To allow the element of chance

To play with the laws of necessity

Down deep in the pocket

Of the newly formed Universe

They could not have known

Exactly how things would turn out.

But they knew for sure

That sooner or later

The music of the spheres

Was going to get

A lot more interesting

When all those quarks and leptons

Started doing their subatomic dance

To a funky second line beat.

That’s why the Angels of Possibility

Gather together every April

In the city of New Orleans

To celebrate their achievement …

And it took only 13.7 billion years

Which in cosmic terms is nothing at all.

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