by Lee Gurga
A few turns around the Windy City with a Chicago girl who doesn’t seem to have
opened the sports section lately!
Jivin’ Chicago Girl
High steppers, high heels,
high signs, high rises
I’m just a Chicago girl,
living in a Chicago world
High rises, high heels,
high steppers, high signs
Sophisticated clothes, sophisticated prose, sophisticated hose
Rush Street, Division Street,
Canal Street, State Street
Crummy Cubs, dirty Socks,
my, what lousy teams we’ve got
CTA, City Hall, The El, the Pier,
and sure, Mayor Daily, the seer
High steppers, high heels,
high signs, high rises
–Kathleen O’Hara Podzimek
Local poets were writing about contemporary events in the Sangamo
Journal as early as the 1830s. People’s Poetry wants you to share your thoughts
on what’s happening in Springfield today–in poetic form. Poems on any subject
will be considered, but ones that deal with issues of local interest are encouraged.
Send yours to poetry editor Lee Gurga, P.O. Box 662, Lincoln, IL 62656, or to
gurga@ccaonline.com with “Bards of
the Sangamo” in the subject line. (Please limit your submissions to poems of
14 lines or less.)
This article appears in Sep 11-17, 2003.
