" I go get a shoeshine
because I will get off the 4:19 in Easthampton
at 7:15 and then go straight to dinner
and I don’t know the people who will feed me"
The speaker sounds too excited in the beginning, almost so much that you just see a person running around from left to right doing errands on your head and not paying attention to anything. That is until we get to the end of the poem, when he see's "her" face. After looking up a few critics and analyzes of he poem i found out that the poem is about a famous jazz musican who was named Billie Holiday. The poem also "Day Lady" has to do with Holiday's nickname "Lady Day." Two imageries you can see there. The poem ends also in more tributal way when the author writes
| "while she whispered a song along the keyboard to Mal Waldron and everyone and I stopped breathing" |
You can almost picture Holiday with someone else singing like she always used to. I can't really relate to Holiday except when it comes to talking about celebrities that i know. Like many athletes who i watch who tragically pass away with accidents. What do you guys think of the play?
