The Poet

My brother-in-law, Jim Spurr is a poet living in Shawnee, Oklahoma.

He wrote this poem about my husband and me.

The Earth All Shook Up

He's a jazz drummer,

my brother, and a smart guy,

Playing in a smart band.

The Katie O Combo.

And his wife is a looker

from Memphis.

She never knew Elvis

but she knows his haunts

and she knows the mystery

of the why and the need

for that man and that music

at that moment..

I know these things because

I know her

And I know the drummer-man.

She says

Memphis holds the secret

of it all.....

the stage, the shoes

the sideburns, the Blues

Beale Street.

America its plain self.

 

by Jim Spurr