Following are notes explaining how/why the various parts of this multigenre paper came to be:
Everything is copasetic - a dictionary entry. In fact, if you look the word up, you'll find it in almost any modern dictionary, although it won't read quite like my entry does.
Bones Jangling - a metaphorical poem. Pretty obvious stuff.
Best Tap Dancer in the World - this essay went through several revisions over the past few weeks. It began life as a bonifide research paper in my mind (before I realized the essay was supposed to be, well... short). What you see here is a cut-down, shortened version of the original. Most painful was the deletion of two good paragraphs about the African and European roots of tap. *sigh*
Bill & Fred - pretty self explanatory. Bill Robinson & Fred Astaire in a double voice poem.
Anatomy of Bones - a strange free form photo commentary, play on words with (painfully bad) poetic overtones.
Cafe Metropol - character description of Bojangles as he appears in the deleted dance scene. Video provided, of course...
Personal Recollection - free form selection. Part journal entry, part letter to the reader.
How's that go again? - dialog, but you already knew that.
American as Apple Pie - recipe, but once again, you already knew that.
Stairway to Paradise - obituary entry, newspaper style. And you know, I just had to link one last video.
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