Dyin' Blues

Tom Lombardo
    Delta Blues Dying,
    reports The New York Times.
    Only four men, older than Satan,
    still play: one in a wheel chair
    uses a butter knife to bend notes
    on his hollow body Epiphone.
    His piece of the Delta heard
    about That Salk Man too late,
    and nowadays he plays for
    busloads who email his blues
    far from the Mississippi's summer-
    cracked silt. In Tokyo,
    when they hear it,
    they know. They feel
    something vibrate their bellies,
    something that bends them blue.
    
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