Short 1940S Poems

Now that my love is the sixty-four dollar question.
Named for a TV show back in the 40’s, before most of you were born.
Maybe even before your parents were born.
And guess what the grand prize was in the 40’s?
You guessed it!...

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Early 1940s
 13 years before my birth
On the seas 
during World War II 
My father served as a Navy chef
That's when the waves 
Did wave
And the banners windley gauge
Sailor at sea served his country and his seamen
Alas! 
13 years later 
As a husband and father he served
Sailor chef my father he fed me

6/23/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021...

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CHILDHOOD SEX
	(for D.P.)
Oh, where is she now, love of my life, the woman I adore?
(I was five that summer, and she eighteen–—
in my childish heart of hearts, I had promised to marry,
knowing nothing of heartbreak and the grownup world of desire!)
— she walked up the steps ahead of me—
wearing a pair of those 1940s-style-cut white short-shorts 
like Lana Turner wore in “Postman”: 
and my heart did a tailspin–a turnover–—
from which I have never fully recovered!...

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