Bakersfield or Brooklyn?
written by: Phyllis Schwartz
Ukraine taking back 30 towns is hot topical.
CA is hot tropical.
Rain storm through Tejon.
Dust Storm through Lebec.
Right out of Steinbeck.
Why does nobody believe in climate change?
Hey buddy can you spare some change?
There’s a Utica Avenue near Kettleman City?
Stop the train I gotta get off!
You’ve seen one Flatlands you’ve seen them all.
But I haven’t seen a Flatbush yet.
Dorothy I think we’re far away from Brooklyn.
Click your sandals twice and you’re almost home.
Is Bakersfield the western Brooklyn?
Phyllis Schwartz is a former journalist living in the dreamy beach town of Encinitas, California. After many years of working in the gritty news town of Chicago, Illinois she is back near her coastal hometown writing poetry and children's books. The married mother of two combines what she draws from her experiences on the west coast and what some call the third coast for her tightly phrased and observational poetry, evoking sight and sound images much in the way one would when writing for the visual and descriptive experience of television news. Phyllis is a three time cancer survivor and her first children's book "When Mom Feels Great, Then We Do Too!" is an upbeat, rhyming book about how family can help a sick mom recover with humor and fun. She has another rhyming children's book coming out in the fall with an anti-bullying theme "Mom Wombat Says Make War No More!"
Latest posts by Phyllis Schwartz (see all)
- Fainting and Falling - March 30, 2023
- Bakersfield or Brooklyn? - November 5, 2022
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