Burlesque 1962 or Even Honor Students Play Hooky
by Teenage Sexuality in the 1960s.
BURLESQUE 1962
Or
Even Honor Students Play Hooky
Truant Billy Hawkins enters the Roxy Theatre
at Ninth and Chester.
Dilapidated walls host tattered, washed-out posters
of famous strippers:
Gypsy Rose, Irma the Body, and local legend Babes Busty.
Memories of a lost art.
Billy trips on the red, torn carpet
surrounding spring-broken seats of four decades.
The minimum-wage orchestra strikes off-key accompaniment
for aging, jeered-at comics.
A snoring drunk drops his bottle,
wine trickling down rows.
As the announcer barks out a corny introduction,
disappointed Billy rises for a premature exit.
Quickly reseated by the stage-left entrance
of Buxom Brenda Bottoms,
notorious for mesmerizing cleavage;
power to corrupt even the purest of teenage boys.
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