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:
speakeasies, abuse,
Form: Senryu
I am the roaring twenties
And the cotton club.
I am Al Capone and his
Thugs.
I am the rise of Joseph
Stalin.
I am the age of science
And penicillin.
I am Walt Disney and
Mickey Mouse.
I am electricity in
My house.
I am the stock market
Crash.
I am the first Academy
Award bash.
I am Miss America pageant
The first time.
I am Valentino dies reads
The headlines.
I am the great depression
Sweeps the land.
I am Lindbergh on north
Atlantic flight plan.
I am Betty Crocker and
Wonder bread.
I am the great migration
Watch me spread.
I am speakeasies and Gerber
Baby food.
I am the age of Jazz puts
You in the mood.
I am the woman's right to
Vote ,19th amendment.
I am seven-up, Coca cola's
First resentment.
Turbo1904
Categories:
speakeasies, history,
Form: Rhyme
Insecurity. Bled me dry.
The seed. Root.
Ghosts in my soul.
Invasion.
Laughter at speakeasies.
Bubbles in the champagne.
Surfaced, too quickly.
Whether on my right,
Or, left of you.
You let the
Bubbles rise to your
Unthoughtful Head.
None the less.
Categories:
speakeasies, change, confusion, divorce,
Form: Free verse
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:
speakeasies, muse,
Form: I do not know?
"So what will you do without me?"
he asks,
I will become Jezzebel,
like all the other forgotten
women of romance movies,
huddle in the back alley ways of
notorious speakeasies
in a revealing red dress
and weep the soul of you
out of me
into your perfectly white kerchief,
runny mascara,
that's what.
Categories:
speakeasies, introspection, loss, lost love,
Form: Free verse