Blowin' down the King's highway
and doin' them hip shake babes
in every juke joint from Tupelo
to Chi-town and back again.
Yeah, that's the blues.
But, more un that
it's a slow changin' body
that makes shadows happy
and
when that steel slides
and that pensive pedal cries
like a baby in church
Yeah, you know.
I remember Junior Kimbrough
used to play that hard drivin' rhythm
on "Crawlin' King Snake,"
the wimmens bees a movin'
like a spring seed submerged
and then fifteen minutes in
the whole damn place
bee blossomed in his boogaloo
and yeah
I still remember
the smell
the taste
the feel
of peoples
risin' up in the moonlight
and becomin' the wind
blowin' down
the King's highway.
yeah
I'm a man.
the hoochie coochie man
Author notes
"I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory. "
~Muddy Waters
The final two lines taken from Mckinley Morganfield's "Manish Boy"
yeah the bluest Mudd
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and that's about all I have to offer.
Thank you for this, was going to be just another ordinary day.
Your words amaze me, Richard.
love,
jin
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I was there at the juke joint cause you took me there. This was real...I could hear, smell, see even taste this. Wonderful dialect to assist.
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I love the nostalgic feel, as if it was written long ago for something even more distant. I see a man on a porch in nursing home closing his eyes to a slow beat only he can hear.
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You've always embodied a 'blues' kind of feel to me. I have a thing for that, so that's why I've looked on you affectionately. You have that easy going nature and it just comes across loud and clear in this piece.
Normally, I don't like seeing slang in poetry but you do it with intent and in certain parts so that it doesn't come off as annoying. That's really quite a feat. You never fail to impress me dollface.
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This made me smile giggle and turn some music on..
I knew that you would blow this prompt away...
I absolutely love this and I thank you for entering...
So fun
Lynda
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And I's be a hoochie coochie mamma
I loved every hip shake and soul boogaloo in this! 
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Why the applauds before the poem is even posted? As I told Rich (kaibab), I considered the source. Lynda is surely providing the perfect prompts to the right people on this contest. I just saw "Cadillac Records" a few days ago. Muddy would be pleased to have you speak your own perspective based on his quotation, Scribe. Good luck in the contest, my Friend. 
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ty Wanda
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