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By- Susan Kollemparampil Kuruvilla.

-1- 

A Margarita! For the lady

$ 7000.00 on the rocks

Sponge cake, fried chicken

And a root beer for the man!

Alas! It’s a speakeasy not my kitchen.

-2- 

I shall be damned ! but only after you

Frankly my dear I give a damn!…

I shall be damned! but after you…

Speakeasy…and  the rest is history

Alas! It is history and not my kitchen oven.

-3- 

Rose, She is not beautiful! She is ugly!

Bouquet, She was not beautiful, now she is ugly

You are not beautiful! You are ugly!

I was not beautiful! I am ugly!

Alas! It is not the mirror it is the speakeasy.

-4-

Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof;

Bricks and straws; ferment and chill

A little wine for a merry heart

And the loaf of bread for a smile

Alas! The speakeasy; it cannot chill the marrow.

-5- 

Of brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers..

In wine and ferment; the speakeasy chill

The slur and word.. lost in the blur and slime

Of lost and found in truth and tell 

Alas! The speakeasy; the price of wine and soul

-6- 

Sunsets at the tavern with ale and wine

Loud and sultry; lost at utmost 

Speaking, slurring, traipsing, tripping

Boot and pump in measures bid 

Long and short in upshots of need and plenty

Alas! The speakeasy my utmost lost.. and soul..

-7- 

Sunrise in the sunshine brilliant 

Warming, smarting eye and soul 

To ire and tears …a brilliance confounding

In the smile and balm of morning light

Ahoy! A dawn of loss and pride…of home and soul.

-8- 

Sunrise in the morning light of soul

Speaking, telling of ferment and chill

The utmost lost and half found in the sun

The smile and balm of heaven’s sunlight

The speakeasy and the morning arms..

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