Jazz Poetry Appreciation Month: Carl Sandburg, 'Honky Tonk in Cleveland, Ohio'

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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And while we're at it, don't forget about your "Jazz April" Twibbon either!