Poetry Brothel Vermont

     Born in the dangerous, seedy, Bowery of New York City- full of rough and tumble, ne’r do wells and immigrants, Posey spent her youth picking pockets to help her family survive. 

 

     When Posey wasn’t beating them up, she would show the boys her poetry for penny candy.

     

     Her mother was an actress in vaudeville. Posey would often sneak backstage to watch her mother giving oration.  Her father was a disgraced eyeglass salesman. He made a spectacle of himself and had to leave town, abandoning Posey and her mother.

     

     Poesy got her start in show biz when she was a stand-in at a spelling bee act involving a juggling monkey and Siamese twins.  She went on to work the vaudeville circuit with her mother where they did an act trading haikus.  Later, while traveling the circuit, she met her one true love on Broadway, the world-famous Tapping Typist.  She performed with him until the day he ran off with a writer of romance novellas.  She won't talk about him, so don’t ask.

     

     Poesy swore off love and that's when she went west to do the Talkies.  Her career in film ended when she offended Charlie Chaplin.  She moved to Vermont to "get away from it all" and joined the Poetry Brothel.

   

     She is rumored to sleep in a coffin and to keep a pet monkey named Mr. Rhymes.