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Church, When They Had No Pianos
“Backbeat means the church feel. . . . ”
—Howard Grimes
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Feel the beat. The backbeat.
Feel the beat. Stomp with the feet,
the stomping of the feet—
and the clapping of the hands—
the feet the beat,
the hands the ands.
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Stomp with your feet. Clap with your hands.
Praise be to God / with the stomping of the feet.
The church said, Amen /
with the clapping of the hands—
the feet the beat,
the hands the ands.
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When they had no pianos,
do you think that they were poor,
with the feet the beat,
the hands the ands—
the stomping of the feet—
and the clapping of the hands?
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Church recall. The stomping of the feet.
Church respond with the clapping of the hands
The feet the beat, and the . . . .
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— Helen Losse, first published in Adagio Verse Quarterly, reprinted by permission of the author
Sidenote: Southern Hum Press, which published Helen’s chapbook Paper Snowflakes, is seeking entries for its 2007 Women of Words Award and Poetry Chapbook Contest. $10 entry fee. July 15 e-mail deadline. Guidelines at the link.
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Valentine’s Day is upon us and so is the mad rush for the perfect gift, e.g. this article from the money section of the NYTimes:
Buy just four pieces in the Signature stainless steel box and you are paying more than $2,000 a pound, making the Noka chocolate more expensive than delicacies like caviar, saffron or black truffles.
How can anyone justify paying that much for a gift? Economists have struggled over that question for years, suggesting that anything other than a cash gift is inefficient.
The poet in me, which is not overfond of Valentine’s Day, has to smile at the idea of efficiency in gifts, but I’ll admit that I’d rather have $2000 (cash, check, or money order) than 0.024 oz. of chocolate.
If you want to find out why Noka chocolate is so expensive read on. I’ll admit I didn’t really care enough to finish the article.
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or “Don’t Jail Children for Profit:”
Once all the barbed wire comes down, Gary Mead, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement official, said, “it’s going to look more like a community college with a very high chain-link fence.”
Read the rest of this NYTimes article on the T. Don Hutto Family Detention Center for illegal aliens in Taylor, Texas.
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