The Stafford Challenge, Day 21

Yesterday, the poet Holly Jahangiri, in The Stafford Challenge facebook group, challenged me to write a double acrostic. Here's my response poem. In a double acrostic, the beginning letters of each line spell out something, and the ending letters of each line spell out something too, sometimes the same thing. My poem is a tribute to the great Japanese band Tokyo Groove Gyoshi, specifically their song "What Is Hip?" which is a cover of Tower of Power's excellent funk hit by that title. The Tokyo Groove Jyoshi video is linked below the poem. I'll also add a link to the Tower of Power version below. You should watch both videos to fully appreciate the poem. The acrostic aspect of the poem is spelling out the band name, Tokyo Groove Gyoshi, with the line-beginning letters and also the line-ending letters. So it's "Tokyo Groove Gyoshi" on both sides, going down. Hope that made sense. I'm bolding the letters just to help you read the phrase downward. If you're reading on a phone, you might turn it sideways so you can see each line on its own. Thanks for reading! What Is Hip? in Tokyo double acrostic on Tokyo Groove Jyoshi’s song “What Is Hip?” Tower of Power’s mega-hit on steroids, “What Is Hip?”—so known and respected in funk— you will undoubtedly enjoy on fire with shamisen in this video, grooving, rocking under, over, every which way, to offer a new feel of this song, so very Japanese yet full of jazzy improv, experimental but also traditional. The incomparable Juna Serita on low end, rocking a Fender J you’ll never see in a music store, much less play, off-the-scale slap and pop — molto allegro, staccato, percussive — incredible chops! How freaking funky, yet ultimately smooth. I absolutely dig this track, inspiration with a capital I. —Draft by Vince Gotera    [Do not copy or quote . . . thanks.] Here is a video of Tower of Power performing "What Is Hip?" (with Carlos Santana sitting in on guitar). Great video! Friends, won’t you comment, please? Love to know what you’re thinking. Ingat, everyone.  ヅ