Poem: Billie Holiday Created Modern Jazz Singing And Also Loved Drugs, Drinking And Fucking

The official story is that Billie Holiday lived a sad life. She was abused and

grew up to abuse alcohol and drugs as part of her escape. She peaked, then crumbled, then died broke and

losing her voice and all well before the age of 50. But Billie used every interview

to point out she’d had a hell of a life – she’d gone from nothing to being one of the quee…