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James A. Emanuel

Pin-                La-                  SCATS  :
            ball               dy
tis-                              tas-                  bumps
         ket raps                ket,                                back.

                            yel-                 bas-
Wins                        low                   ket.

© 1991 James A. Emanuel. All rights reserved.
From Jazz From the Haiku King | Broadside Press, 1999
Reprinted by permission of the author.

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