Cotopaxi, Ecuador (summer 2012)

Thursday, September 3, 2009

What is IT?

i listened to Al Jolson last night with his voice snappy & gay 
he sang a depression tune of men without employment or pay as their line of heads hanging low shuffled feet near the free kitchen door 
hot soup for all who would show the multitude haggard & poor 
but Clara Bow was the one who had IT:  a real jazz baby in movies & print 
without talk her mouth was a dancer and smiling delivered the hint 
the 20's were F Scott Fitzgerald and Cooper (who'd soon be a silent pictures star) 
driving a chrome-adorned American car.

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Jessica in Madrid, Spring 2006

Jessica in Madrid, Spring 2006
daughter is empowering herself