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FESTIVAL
They ebb and flow like tides down the half-empty street from venue to venue, many with that lost look of years in the desert, driven on by promised the land of honey notes, the mother’s milk of jazz. The event passes flap in the breeze created by their wake, some checking programs, their personal map…
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ALL THAT JAZZ
The cat only wants to go outside. It’s night, her favorite time, and she stalks the uncoiled garden hose, which has become a fierce green snake that falls to her attack. He and she are dead tired, drowned in the sixth night of the fifth annual jazz festival. His shirt is bathed in the half…