They asked for distillment.
I gave them greater than what they said was desired.
Fulfillment
Came the sheriff.
Came church officials who’d been hired.
Tariff
The men,
bottles acquired.
Sin
They asked for distillment.
Came church officials who’d been hired.
Sin
Categories:
prohibition, freedom,
Form: Other
eighteenth amendment
national prohibition
thirteen awful years
led by protestants
fearing evil of liquor
handcuffed alcohol
policemen were paid off
bootleggers became wealthy
speakeasies crept up
cancelled years later
by 21st amendment
drinking continues
Categories:
prohibition, abuse,
Form: Senryu
Prohibition began one hundred years ago in the USA.
People had their right to drink booze taken away.
This made people unhappy and they began to whine.
And this caused Al Capone to start peddling moonshine.
Capone was evil and because of him, people were killed.
On December 5 1933, the 18th Amendment was repealed.
People were very happy because prohibition came to an end.
They were as giddy as school girls to have the right to drink again.
Categories:
prohibition, drink, history, humor,
Form: Rhyme
i have a pear
shaped mandolin
depression era
that has surely
sinned in
speakeasies
in the '30's
because my
fingering has
never been so
beautifully
dirty
Categories:
prohibition, muse,
Form: I do not know?
Categories:
prohibition, funny, history
Form: Couplet
Allah has set forth example of Noah and Lut
For the people who disbelieve the Truth.
Both of them were prompt to my slavery
But their wives did the treachery
So they were unable to save them from Allah’s anger
Then goes the order, enter into Hell’s fire
With the ones who enter.
Allah has set forth Pharaoh’s wife’s example
For the faithful people
O Lord! Please make a home for me beside You in paradise
And save me from Pharaoh and all his goings-on
And save me from this cruel nation.
Categories:
prohibition, religionme, me,
Form: Free verse