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Genius Annotation

This poem is about the death of famous jazz singer Billie Holiday on July 17, 1959. The title is a play on her nickname “Lady Day.” When celebrities we love die, many of us remember where and what we were doing at the time. This is O'Hara’s story of what he was doing the day she died.

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