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Chicagoetry: Come Back To The Five And Dime Bag, Stu Levine, Stu LevineCOME BACK TO THE FIVE AND DIME BAG, STU LEVINE, STU LEVINE Back, come back: you can blame it all on me. You are my Poster Boy! Lovely: the polished image Wide lawns, narrow blinds, freshly-washed SUVs Miley Cyrus DVDs. But where would we be American Moral Hypocrisy made voluptuously manifest Whoop-whoo! Whoop-whoo! I was 'round the State Capitol Whoop-whoo! Whoop-whoo! If you got bad news you wanna shake the blues, Get the story, bag the babe, Whoop-whoo! Whoop-whoo! But keep it clean, maintain the superficial moral Let's stay together! the children dyin' Whoop-whoo! Whoop-whoo! children who hate us, wives who berate us: don't we DESERVE our PARTY?! the rug: after all, they're just inner-city No big whoop . . . - J. J. Tindall is the Beachwood's poet-in-residence. He can reached at jjtindall@yahoo.com. Chicagoetry is an exclusive Beachwood collection-in-progress. Posted on April 10, 2008 |
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