Caitlin Whittington/The New York Public Library The Gotham Jazzmen at the Library for the Performing Arts.Dear Diary:
I’m in love with the Gotham Jazzmen,
six senior musicians
who’ve played together for decades.
Most Tuesdays at noon
I slip into the Bruno Walter Auditorium
at Lincoln Center to inhale
the improvisational ribbons
Of Dixieland.
I’m embraced and seduced
by the clarinet notes that pierce
my heart and confess to a crush
on half the white-haired men
in their khakis and oxford shirts.
They talk to each other on stage, yet
listen respectfully to each other’s riffs
as we applaud as one.
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