The Cat's Pajamas

A Rhyming Acrostic About the Bee's Knees

By Lightning Bolt ⚡Published 5 months ago • Updated 5 months ago • 1 min read

They were "the spark that lit up flaming youth."

F_AST DANCING to Jazz music like there is no tomorrow

L_ETTING GO of the War's tragedies and the Influenza's sorrows

A_PPAREL inspired by the discovery of King Tut

P_ROPER long tresses forsaken for the bob cut

P_ATRIARCHAL Society thinks them little better than whores

E_ASY SPEAKING & a special knock is how they open doors

R_EBELLIOUS young voices growing ever more brash

S_HOCKED⚡ & silenced by the Stock Market Crash

...and their era abruptly ended.

*by

______________Bolt⚡

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"You've got an awfully kissable mouth"

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Black Bottom isn't nearly as well known today but it was the Second Most popular dance of the 1920s, after the Charleston.

Bolt ⚡ aka Bill↬bizarre bisexual bipolar alliterative epileptic sexy ♒Aquarian retired superhero. Author of humor, poetry, sci fi & horror.

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