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photo by William Gottlieb/Library of Congress

Buddy Rich, New York, N.Y., ca. Aug. 1946

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Drummer Eyes

a touch of salt
peppered with depth

the bang of delivery
served up
as cymbals sizzle
in smoke clouds
of madness
as his message
attacks the ears

heart beats fail
in the shadow
with nothing to give
like the best
he delivers
in a story
beyond noise
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Dr. Roger Singer was in private practice for 38 years in upstate New York. He has four children, Abigail, Caleb, Andrew and Philip and seven grandchildren. Dr. Singer has served on multiple committees for the American Chiropractic Association, lecturing at colleges in the United States, Canada and Australia, and has authored over fifty articles for his profession and served as a medical technician during the Vietnam era.

Dr. Singer is the Poet Laureate of Old Lyme, Connecticut. He has had over 1,070 poems published on the Internet, magazines and in books and is a 2017 Pushcart Prize Award Nominee. He is also the President of the Shoreline Chapter of the Connecticut Poetry Society.

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A Buddy Rich drum solo…

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