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Ode To Billy Jo (Keziah)
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setting takes place at a New Orleans jazz club pre-Katrina...

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Another hot and dry
August day,
Keziah at piano,
what to play,
biblical, named after
one of the three daughters
of Job,

girlfriend's out with
Brother Rob,
at prayer time, she
holler's out "y'all
remember the
collection plate,"

and Brother Rob
says "there's new
hymnals, services
at eight, don't
ya'll be late,"

"An wasn't I talkin'
to Keziah after church
last Sunday night,
and now you tell
me she's passed
through Heaven's
light,"

and that nice preacher
Brother Rob held
her little girl and
heard her sob,

"no light in the fridge,
they pushed my mama
off the bridge
cuz I had two
mommies, I'm so
sad,"

nuthin' ever comes
to no good outta
prejudice, it's too bad,

Another hot and dry
August day,
Keziah not at piano, 
nuthin' to play,
biblical, named after
one of the three daughters
of Job...


Copyright 2006 Sage Sweetwater, firebrand lesbian novelist




 

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 Reviews of "Ode To Billy Jo (Keziah)"
Reviewed by Nordette Adams
Reviewed on August 12, 2006
Cool story for this homesick woman here.

Reviewed on August 11, 2006
Nice one, Sage; very well penned! BRAVA!

(((HUGS))) and much love, your friend in Tx., Karen Lynn. :D

Reviewed by Thomas Garrett
Reviewed on August 11, 2006
a nice, slow, jazzy feel, like a hot summer evening on the porch. Good work, Sage.

Sonny G

Reviewed by Susan de Vegter
Reviewed on August 11, 2006
You took me back to The Big Easy and to my favorite place Palms Courtyard and the good food, easy conversation, the mellow moan of a saxophone and a New Orleans "moment". I miss so very much the friends I have there and the many memories made before Katrina.
Thank you!
Susan

Reviewed by Kate Burnside
Reviewed on August 11, 2006
The length, depth and breadth of the intensity of your scene-setting and story-telling is immense, Sage and so virtual. The diversity is also astounding. "nuthin' ever comes to no good outta prejudice, it's too bad"... now ain't that the truth? Prejudice breeds hypocrisy which the mirror of truth exposes whatever the image sought to be projected is. No one is fooled. You see Prejudice in whatever way it seeks to present itself as if with X-Ray specs, my dear. You have a divine nose for sham. Play it agin, Baby! :)) LOL Kate xx


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