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The Devils Made Me Do It
Orange Coast College
June Twenty-Second, Nineteen-Ninety
It was my first show live and I swear
I must’ve screamed like I saw the Almighty
There was a certain air
About the color and the pageantry
But when the Devils went on last
The place erupted with insanity
What was unique about this year
Was that they had stepped away from jazz
The Blue Devils doing Tommy?
I never thought I hear The Who with brass
What are the tarps for? Oh, I get it
The field turned into a pinball machine
Then when the whole corps went hardcore
I swore they played beyond my dreams
I went home that very night
Enamored by that arrangement and score
I wanted to be a bad ass like them
And I practiced harder than ever before
#NaPoWriMo2020
134 words
93 unique
June Twenty-Second, Nineteen-Ninety
It was my first show live and I swear
I must’ve screamed like I saw the Almighty
There was a certain air
About the color and the pageantry
But when the Devils went on last
The place erupted with insanity
What was unique about this year
Was that they had stepped away from jazz
The Blue Devils doing Tommy?
I never thought I hear The Who with brass
What are the tarps for? Oh, I get it
The field turned into a pinball machine
Then when the whole corps went hardcore
I swore they played beyond my dreams
I went home that very night
Enamored by that arrangement and score
I wanted to be a bad ass like them
And I practiced harder than ever before
#NaPoWriMo2020
134 words
93 unique
Published 14th Apr 2020
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14th Apr 2020 00:39am
LOVE this series. Wally. I anxiously wait for you to post each day, wondering what band will take me back to my school daze!
Wonderfully clever play on the title too!
Wonderfully clever play on the title too!
17th Apr 2020 3:56pm
Thanks Ahavati.
It was a bit difficult to pick which ones to write about for April as there are so many, but this is one my first shows I saw live and I've been hooked ever since.
It was a bit difficult to pick which ones to write about for April as there are so many, but this is one my first shows I saw live and I've been hooked ever since.
14th Apr 2020 00:58am
17th Apr 2020 3:57pm
14th Apr 2020 1:02am
This is a very cool poem! I'll definitely have to check out more of your work :)
17th Apr 2020 3:58pm
Aw, thank you Emily. Hope you like the verse and the music/visuals that have inspired me for years.
