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photo by Taryn Elliot/via Pexels
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Film Noir
Flip day for night then lose the glossy crooner
Let the trumpet solo drain the oil from showbiz lake
Cruise a lowdown hungry blues
Along the Great White Way
To citizens’ arrest on Lower Broadway
Baste two broken hearts
In Creole sauce and burn them
Candy canes on Christmas trees
No longer swing nor taste as sweet
Cowboy chords cannot investigate
Certain commission of crime
In these disunited States
But come next chocolate Easter
Bunny-Hop and following a lead
Someone may Arise
To hold a blow-torch to the truth
Who makes an omelette unafraid
Of breaking eggs
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Bernard Saint is a U.K. poet who has published in U.K. and United States literary magazines since the 1960’s. He is a regular contributor to International Times. His most recent book is ROMA, published by Smokestack Books. He worked as a therapist and supervisor in the U.K. National Health Service in psychiatry and in addiction recovery.
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Listen to Chet Baker (with Russ Freeman on piano) play “Amblin” [Universal Music Group]
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