setting takes place at a New Orleans jazz club pre-Katrina...

music
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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