Prosody Essay: Southside, Westside

All Around My Towns

Chicago’s Southshore

Where lived from

Just-born through ten

Was the opposite

Of West Los Angeles

We then moved to

In that former is

Lower class

But latter’s rich.

Chitown block

I so happily existed

Had a Slayer

Actual serial-killer

Who pushed

Ger into basement

Unless older

Kids were playing

Unfunny tricks.

Beverly Hills’ boys

Used a phrase

You simply slay me

Which today

I still don’t really

Understand.

On another hand

Both places

Had lottsa us Jews

And are right

Near major bodies

Of water thus

Without question have their similarities when make comparisons. End.

Prize-winning-poet Gerard Sarnat's physician, Stanford professor and healthcare CEO. His literary work's published by The Buddhist Poetry Review, Gargoyle, Main Street Rag, New Delta Review, Arkansas Review, Hamilton-Stone Review, Northampton Review, New Haven Poetry Institute, Texas Review, Vonnegut Journal, Brooklyn Review, San Francisco Magazine, Monterey Poetry Review, The Los Angeles Review, and The New York Times, as well as by many academic presses. Read more about him at gerardsarnat.com