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Carl Sandburg - Honky Tonk in Cleveland, Ohio

IT’S a jazz affair, drum crashes and cornet razzes
The trombone pony neighs and the tuba jackass snorts.
The banjo tickles and titters too awful.
The chippies talk about the funnies in the papers.
  The cartoonists weep in their beer.
  Ship riveters talk with their feet
  To the feet of floozies under the tables.
A quartet of white hopes mourn with interspersed snickers:
    “I got the blues.
    I got the blues.
    I got the blues.”
And … as we said earlier:
  The cartoonists weep in their beer.

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Honky Tonk in Cleveland, Ohio - Comments and Information

Poet: Carl Sandburg
Poem: 14. Honky Tonk in Cleveland, Ohio
Volume: Smoke and Steel
- II. People Who Must
Year: Published/Written in 1922
Poem of the Day: Apr 23 2005

Comment 2 of 2, added on January 27th, 2006 at 10:41 PM.

He was a crusty old man who saw for us crisp pictures translating them to words that we might see them through his eyes

Bill Howell from United States
Comment 1 of 2, added on April 29th, 2005 at 6:59 PM.

Floozies and beer...yep, that's Cleveland.

Gary Keefner from United States

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