Beyond NaPo 38
Pennsylvania Fourscore and seven years ago, Charlie Chaplin released City Lights , the Scottsboro Boys were convicted of rape, Nevada legalized gambling, Harold Urey discovered deuterium, the Empire State Building was completed, John Haven Emerson perfected his iron lung, a gallon of gas cost 10 cents, Dick Tracy began his career in the Detroit Mirror , Al Capone was jailed for tax evasion, the Bible Student Movement took the name of Jehovah’s Witnesses, Alvin Ailey was born—so I date this poem and this poem dates me.