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where our protest sound by Lenelle Moïse | Poetry Foundation

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jazz is underwater

Share jazz is underwater vodou atlantis mute aborted ultrasound fetal fish in flood haiti's first cousin forcibly kissed by a hurricane called katrina. hot winds come one fat tuesday. old levee leak explodes. fixing funds gone to homeland security. soldiers stationed in iraq. said, jazz is underwater days like laissez-faire manna does not fall saviors do not save hunger prays to rage for resilience, improvisational genius implodes, anarchy duets with despair. bassist fingers loot—nimble like a deft pianist. said, vodou atlantis mute. the fragile eardrums of instant orphans get inundated with s

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