Getting Low

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Getting Low

“Drop the last two years into the silent limbo of

the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect.”

--Brooks Atkinson.

Like with the Twist

during the late 50’s,

Chubby Checker

did an album

of limbo dances.

Living during that decade,

when Elvis was King,

trying to be Brando,

of chrome-laden Detroit barges, 

leather jackets,

jeans with the cuffs rolled up,

and greasy locks,

things were not as halcyon

as most remember;

I mean,

we had Jim Crow,

George Wallace,

McCarthyism,

and Liberace.

Glenn Buttkus

Posted over at dVerse Poets Pub--Poetics