Flip day for night then lose the glossy crooner
Let the trumpet solo drain the oil from showbiz lake
Cruise a lowdown hungry blues
Along the Great White Way
To citizens’ arrest on Lower Broadway
Baste two broken hearts
In Creole sauce and burn them
Candy canes on Christmas trees
No longer swing nor taste as sweet
Cowboy chords cannot investigate
Certain commission of crime
In these disunited States
But come next chocolate Easter
Bunny-Hop and following a lead
Someone may Arise
To hold a blow-torch to the truth
Who makes an omelette unafraid
Of breaking eggs.
Bernard Saint
Illustration: Claire Palmer
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