Emergency Exit 1939

This poem was entered in "The Writer's Cramp" . The bolded phrases are required for the prompt.

Just give us something
to chew on, Thin Man
Nougat cubes tossed to the lynch mob
hanging by a rope of doomed lyrics

Cotton Farmers in Alabama
felt the pain of Depression banjo
like those hardy souls
loading coal in West by-God Virginia

Took our time to the emergency exit
believing in something fresh,
hearing it one too many times
Swing us from that tree with forgotten music of 1939


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*TheThin Man was a popular movie series in the 1930's.