Poetry Friday: 1938 by J. Patrick Lewis

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The audience hears the ghost of Robert
Johnson, four months gone, easing out
of a Victrola phonograph at center stage -
the entire concert suddenly enveloped
by the man who was not there.

- selected lines from 1938 by J. Patrick Lewis

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