Kim Rodrigues Poet Free verse

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Let Me Entertain You

vaudeville stepped off the stage
and leapt into the living room
with hot topic-tuned antenna views

shy ventriloquists turned from radio
to television with a vision to be seen

juggling with eye-catching
candle-, duck-, and ten-, pins
off the bowler skids in aerial suspension

abracadabra handlers saw their guests -
half of them enjoyed their shows

hats and canes spinning, shoes tapping
all the old variety - hosts rolling eyes

acrobats rose above them all -
the fall guys, the masters of the skies

Marx, Burns, Allen, Fields, Benny
broke their audience records

showcase of holidays and war
in time with comedy and lyrics

The good old daze
replaced by supersonic, telephonic-cell
(the farmer in the dell throws down his pitchfork
to watch)
to hock back the latest, greatest craze
of series, not to purge, but to binge

staying carefully away from Burnett, Sonny and Cher,
Donny and Marie, and Ed.

drooping eyes spring glasses,
a glass of red or white…

elsewhere, the hypothalamus of the kids,
impacted by Squiddy, Stampy and CaptainSparklez

5/25/2023

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Victor Buhagiar May 26, 2023 at 1:52 AM Wow! That was entertainment. Kim Rodrigues May 26, 2023 at 2:37 AM Thank you, Victor!

Jan Allison May 26, 2023 at 12:06 AM what a wonderful stroll down memory lane Kim, entertainment ... it sure isn;t the same these days:-) hugs jan xx Kim Rodrigues May 26, 2023 at 2:37 AM Thank you, my friend! xx

Bill Baker May 25, 2023 at 3:57 PM Wonderful trip down memory lane, Kim. Very informative write, my friend. These times, they're a changing! A great loss to entertainment and society. Thanks for sharing! Bill Kim Rodrigues May 25, 2023 at 8:07 PM It’s been a whole different world. My 8 year old grandson has always been able to choose what to watch…not like us. Binge watching, not in our early days!

Gershon Wolf May 25, 2023 at 2:02 PM All those you mentioned all grew up hardscrabble -- scratching for pennies; fending off Jew-haters, trying to put their immigrant roots behind them... Tough customers, they all were in vaudeville. Didn't grow up soft, like I did. That's for sure!... Interesting ink, Kim. Kim Rodrigues May 25, 2023 at 2:17 PM Thank you, Gershon! It was fun taking a stroll down memory lane! I saw Sonny and Cher when I was a kid. I was beyond excited!

Panagiota Romios May 25, 2023 at 9:07 AM Originality flashes in this one and great imagery. I was young and. We danced tto live bands and even full live orchestras. When I was a debutante at 16, live orchestra, ball gowns…the Viennese waltz, lovely. I don’t understand the loss of beauty, Kim. Music theatres in Chicago played organ music and fad stage shoews before the movie! Times have changed. Pangie Panagiota Romios May 25, 2023 at 11:40 AM What a lovely compliment, Kim. I grew up in more civilized times.I have been blessed. Attention, the New York Post has many pictures and articles and some You Tubes on Tina Turner today. .. Stay sweet, Pangie Kim Rodrigues May 25, 2023 at 9:39 AM When I’ve gone to the Fox theater and also in Arizona, they had an organ player…so fun to be entertained with good old-fashioned flair! I know you were something special!