The Stafford Challenge, Day 35

Today, again an ekphrastic poem, based not on an art image but rather a song from 50+ years ago. A performance video of the song is below . . . maybe watch it before reading the poem? An ovillejo again. A Spanish form: 3 couplets and a quatrain, aa bb cc cddc, with the short lines at the ends of the couplets concatenated in the last line, syllabic pattern of 8/3/8/3/8/3/8/8/8/X (where X is the total of the repeated lines ... typically 9 syllables but could be more because the 3-syllable lines are allowed to to be 4). More on the ovillejo form here. Half Century of Fiery Funk: Bumpty-Bumpty-Bump An ovillejo inspired by "Down to the Nightclub" by Tower of Power (1972) Tower of Power, some funk, please — East Bay grease! Women be righteously pretty, Bump City! You got to, whatever your size, funkifize! “You’re Still a Young Man” and “What Is Hip” . . . the guys on the stage up there living the dream, for 50 years: East Bay grease, Bump City, funkifize! —Draft by Vince Gotera    [Do not copy or quote . . . thanks.] Tower of Power, "Down to the Nightclub" (1972) Friends, won’t you comment, please? Love to know what you’re thinking. Ingat, everyone.  ヅ