The Magpie Sings the Great Depression:
Selections from DeWitt Clinton High School's Literary Magazine, 1929-1942

Jazz

The Magpie, June 1937, v. 21, n. 2., p. 50.

They sway—

drunken to reality,
dizzy from the steady

rotation of wheels—

  And chant, and howl—

primeval songs in

fervid rhythms

to some primordial idol—
madder and wilder.

Exulting—

in the grinding intonation
of wheels—
in erratic motions—
in moving belts—
in penetrating rhythms—
in overpowering smokestacks —
in living, rabid,
jeering saxophones—
in frenzied dances.

The Magpie Sings the Great Depression

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