Potential Titles: Blues [music]

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It's not always clear whether a snippet intends the plural of the color versus the musical genre. I'll make a judgment call and may be wrong because I've forgotten the context and don't have easy access to check.


Weeks again of patient blues - Wendy Chen "Fastened V"

The sorry endlessness of the blues - Geffrey Davis "For the Child's Mole"

Taken my blues and gone - Langston Hughes "Note on Commercial Theatre"

Who sweatily lament their subterranean homesick blues - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Listening to Nina Simone Sing 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues'"

Blues & sorrow song called out of the deep night - Yusef Komunyakaa "Blue Dementia"

As dusky birds brushed blues into a montage - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Whistle"

Knows the need for a transcendent blues - Gary Copeland Lilley "War"

Blues played lefthanded - Harryette Mullen "Page 5/sun goes on shining"

Carried the blues around - Evie Shockley "color bleeding"

i've grown tired of singing the blues - Dior J. Stephens "a letter to charlie parker"


Blue [color].


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