gin and sin martini. photo © anita aguilar for piym/phoebeworks.this week's episode of party in your mouth celebrates prohibition remembrance day, with a recipe for a gin and sin martini. i'm not a gin girl, but i like this drink.
you can view the episode and print the recipe (party in your apt!) here.
i thought it would be easy to find a nifty, boozy verse--maybe a little dorothy parker--to suit the theme. but of all the "gin" poems i read tonight, this is the only one i was truly interested in. it has nothing to do with what we, at piym, were celebrating. but i hope you like it.
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We Real Cool
The Pool Players.
Seven at the Golden Shovel.
We real cool. We
Left school. We
Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We
Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We
Jazz June. We
Die soon.
--by gwendolyn brooks
via the poetry foundation.org
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if you'd like to hear gwendolyn brooks herself recite the poem (and offer a little backstory), here's an audio clip, recorded at the guggenheim museum in 1983, courtesy of the academy of american poets.
