Sunday, November 5, 2017

AROUND 5800 SOUTH ON ELLIS



“Chicagou has taken this name because of the quantity of garlic which grows in this region”
--Henri Joutel, 1688

No Bernie Carbo,
no Garbo, no Bardot.--
Not Fargo or Largo.

Long-ago Dago argot.
Picasso's Iago imago.
Argonauts' escargot cargo.

Chicago, Chicago that toddling town,
"coarse and strong and cunning."


--Duane Vorhees

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