Speakeasies Poems - Poems about Speakeasies

...eighteenth amendment national prohibition thirteen awful years led by protestants fearing evil of liquor handcuffed alcohol policemen were paid off bootleggers became wealthy speakeasies ......

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...Some may say grand dragon others grand wizard either or it began in 60s everything was a bit chaotic the death of John f Kennedy Bobby Kennedy pope John XXlll my birth and Martin Luther kings famous ......

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...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 a......

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...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. Yo......

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...In a room that once commanded great respect, stage lights began to hiss with heated anticipation. There were sounds of alcohol infused rumblings and laughter rolling through the rows of seats fro......

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...These are post-revolutionary gay '20s, without pre-revolutionary SpeakEasies, replaced with ListenHard to global climates of LeftBrain dominant despair. Margaret Meade encourages invites urge......

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...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......

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...Roaring Twenties Nostalgia and age like bacon and eggs, With buttered toast and jam on the side for breakfast; And coffee, and a glass of orange juice to drink, And a memory in-between t......

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...Above the roller-coaster rain clouds, there's a moment when the wing tip of the plane cuts seamlessly into serene blue as it banks over Chicago. It's a layover in the sunlit limbo of the hope isl......

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..."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 speakeas......

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