Mike Wheeler & Studebaker John
The Blues won’t ask
permission
as it infiltrates
your soul
Each riff a lesion
around your heart
each wail
heartbreak untold
The Blues wont grant
forgiveness
for those roads on which
you strayed
But the thing it wills
inside you
is the mojo
— that you play
(Kingston Mines: January, 2026)
Blues Poem #20
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Blends personal blues experience with universal themes of heartbreak and transformation.
Multiple ideas compressed densely: infiltration, lesion, forgiveness, mojo across brief lines.
Negative imagery (lesion, heartbreak, strayed) tempered by redemptive final message about mojo.
Aggressive consonants, staccato phrasing, urgent rhythm despite line breaks and spacing.
Approximately 12-14 lines; falls in 7-15 line range.
Rich metaphors: riff as lesion, blues as infiltration; personification of blues entity.
Pure lyric internal voice addressing direct emotional/spiritual relationship with the blues.
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