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TALKIN’ THE OLD KITCHEN RADIO BLUES
by Leonard Greco 

    Awoke this morning

    in a dream,

    in a dream awoke

    back in Mama’s

    kitchen; Sinatra and Tommy Dorsey

    playing on the old Emerson radio and

    the sound of bacon in a pan sizzling

    like rain on a hot tin roof

 

    I remember August rain and

    how every apartment in that

    four-story brick building had a

    kitchen radio; Gershwin and Cole Porter

    and    Heaven    I’m in Heaven

 

    I remember kitchen radios and

    sweet August rain and hot tar streets with

heart rising like steam when those raindrops

    pelted

    and

 

    I remember when most men wore

    fedoras and women wore hats to

    church on Sunday; some works of art,

    other’s just plain funny    and

    how Billie Holliday torched those Blues

    burning them into my soul

    and how Mama always listened to

    that old

    kitchen radio –

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