Ellington 

Duke Ellington,

play the piano like you know how to.

Put your fingers on the keys and start the night, with a romantic melody.

Let the rhythm float on you, and around

like it does in me.

Put your feet on the petal

play like you've always played, and start stomping.

Show us what you are.

Let us see

and let us hear what your music is.

I want to swing 

like as if i was in a rent party.

I want to swing

with other people the way your music does.

Duke Ellington,

now play the slow

1 step, 2 steps swing.

So I could feel relaxed,

so I could dance this 1-2, 1-2 with my partner.

See how my mind flies like the notes,

from your piano waltzing out into air, and through our bodies.

Duke Ellington

teach the people what it is to play

teach them how it is you write,

and do all those fantastic things.

Duke Ellington's

music is like being

in a whole new world

a world of your own.

Where everything is how you want it to be.

Duke Ellington

Play,

Play,

and keep on

Playing

for me and the rest of the human beans in this world.

Becuase I want to swing my feet,

let my mind float on the notes that you composed.

Duke Ellington

Keep on playing for me.

                                Johnny Garcia, Grade 11

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