<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384956" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Millennium</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The great millennium is at hand.<br>Redder apples grow on the tree.<br>A saxophone is in ev’ry band.<br>Brandy no longer taints our tea.<br>Dimples smile in the red-rouged knee.<br>The dowagers are no longer fat.<br>Radio now makes safe the sea—<br>And the Turk has bought him a derby hat.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Even our sauerkraut now is canned.<br>Verse is a dangsight more than free.<br>A 'highboy' now is the old dish stand.<br>Ev’ry flapper has her night key.<br>Chopin is jazzed into melody.<br>A child is a 'kiddie' and not a 'brat.'<br>Bosses and miners at last agree—<br>And the Turk has bought him a derby hat.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All firewaters are bravely banned.<br>There is a ballot for every she.<br>The hairpin now is a contraband.<br>A New York mayor gets some sympathy.<br>My dealer brings some coal to me.<br>The plumber is an aristocrat.<br>In Miami all millionaires may be—<br>And the Turk has bought him a derby hat.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Son, the millennium is at hand!<br>What though Armenians be mashed flat?<br>The world is getting just perfectly grand,<br>For the Turk has bought him a derby hat.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ellis+Parker+Butler">Ellis Parker Butler</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384956" data-title="Millennium de Ellis Parker Butler" data-description="The great millennium is at hand. Redder apples grow on the tree. A saxophone is in ev’ry band. Brandy no longer taints our tea. Dimples smile in the red-rouged knee. The dowagers are no longer fat. Radio now makes safe the sea— And the Turk ha..."></div> </div> </div>

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