The Whisky Blot
Journal of Literature, Poetry, and Haiku
To hell with deejays, live bands, crowded dance floors. On lonely nights, bourbon in hand, I still love to hunker, over wide-bellied jukeboxes tucked into dark corners of back street bars, their squat legs perched on sawdust strewn floors, their gap-toothed grin, like a fat man waiting to be fed. I flip through metal pages in search of songs from the past—downbeat Doo-wop of the fifties, Frankie Lyman wailing on that ancient question —why do fools fall in love-- the Platters, rumbling with the rhythm of sex, and Elvis, the king, high gloss, down dirty, singing, sobbing, turning us weak with desire, we wanted to be there, to live in that mysterious hotel called Heartbreak, to walk its bleak, seedy corridors until we learned it was not a place to reside forever. Elizabeth Burk is a semi-retired psychologist and a native New Yorker who divides her time between her family in New York and a home and husband in southwest Louisiana. She is the author of three collections: Learning to Love Louisiana, Louisiana Purchase, and Duet: Poet & Photographer, a collaboration with her photographer husband. Her poems, prose pieces, and reviews have been published in various journals and anthologies including Atlanta Review, Rattle, Southern Poetry Anthology, Louisiana Literature, Passager, Pithead Chapel, PANK, One Art, and elsewhere. Her first full-length manuscript will be published in September 2024, by Texas Review Press. Comments are closed.
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