It's April 25, which makes it Ella Fitzgerald's
92nd birthday not that you need an excuse
to play her Gershwin and Berlin songbooks
it's a lovely day today and whatever you've got
to do she'd be so happy to be doing it with you
in her solitude she sings or she's undecided now
at the Savoy or swinging with Louis at the Savoy
or mentioning Louis and Bobby Darren
in "Mack the Knife" she's always
in the mood for love and always walking
on Dorothy's side of the sunny boulevard
of broken dreams with two outs in the ninth
the Mets a strike away from a 8-2 victory over
hapless Washington (first in war, first in peace,
and last in the National League) I wish they
were still called the Senators let's create
a playlist okay we'll play "Love Walked In" and then
"I Gotta Right to See the Blues" music Harold Arlen
lyrics Ted Koehler who wrote "All I see /
for me / is misery" his best line in my opinion
as Louis sings it or Ella right now
— DL